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DIED. PAUL SACHER, 93, Swiss pharmaceutical tycoon and conductor; in Basel, Switzerland. By the time Sacher married Maja Stehlin--the heir to the Hoffmann-La Roche drug empire--in 1934, he had already founded a musical institute and a chamber orchestra. Even as he commissioned many new works, Sacher oversaw the growth of Hoffmann-La Roche, manufacturer of Valium, for nearly 60 years...
...concertos currently listed, even Ludwig's biggest fans must have trouble getting excited about new ones. Except when they are played by Alfred Brendel, an artist whose interpretive mastery of the composer continues to ripen. In his latest release, Beethoven: The 5 Piano Concertos (Philips Classics), Brendel teams with conductor Sir Simon Rattle and the Vienna Philharmonic in exhilarating performances that blend vitality, expressive breadth and, particularly in the five slow movements, spellbinding beauty...
Last week, the Boston Symphony Orchestra performed at the Roxbury Community College to celebrate conductor Seiji Ozawa's 25th Anniversary. Roberta Flack hosted the event, with Joseph Lin '00 joining them as a featured soloist for the first movement of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D, Opus 35. The grand affair, whose ambitious program featured famed excerpts from the likes of Strauss, Beethoven and Gershwin, kicked off a new BSO initiative called "Symphony in the City" the aim of which is to offer free music to the city neighborhoods of Boston...
Last week, the Boston Symphony Orchestra performed at the Roxbury Community College to celebrate conductor Seiji Ozawa's 25th Anniversary. Roberta Flack hosted the event, with Joseph Lin '00 joining them as a featured soloist for the first movement of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D, Opus 35. The grand affair, whose ambitious program featured famed excerpts from the likes of Strauss, Beethoven and Gershwin, kicked off a new BSO initiative called "Symphony in the City" the aim of which is to offer free music to the city neighborhoods of Boston...
...bizarre music-video parody on the subject of black leather. Annie Tigani '02, as one of several dimwitted Wellesley girls, sang a gratuitous but excellent song (by Jihwan Kim '02 and Rachel Eisenhaure '02) about "wanting a Harvard Man." (I hope no one from Wellesley saw the show.) Orchestra conductor Lembit Beecher '02 provided an even more gratuitous but very funny paean to gratuitous Broadway songs...