Word: conductor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...austerity of Memorial Church I felt my eyebrows begin to twitch and rise as The Brattle Street Chamber Players, cramped into the narrow alter area, launched into the evening's program sans conductor. My fears were quickly dispelled as it became clear that a tall man waving a baton would only have gotten in the way of this new student group. This is how string chamber music was always meant to be performed. Each player eerily synchronizes perfectly with the rest, with every head swaying in time to the rhythm. In the intimate playing atmosphere they create with the audience...
...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...
...final concert of the BSO"s 25th anniversary season under conductor Seiji Ozawa, the Mather House resident played the song that led to his discovery, Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto, at a free community concert. The event was held at Roxbury Community College's Reggie Louis Arena...
Rush Hour won Jackie Chan a lot of friends. They'll want to catch this re-released 1992 comedy in which he plays twins separated at birth; one becomes a famous conductor, the other a rowdy mechanic. Add two girlfriends and some triad intrigue, and you have one of the Chan man's giddiest workouts. Look for cameos by Hark, Lam, John Woo and Kirk Wong--all top action auteurs. But the real fun is in seeing Hong Kong pop cinema at its innocent, crowd-pleasing best. And for Jackie, that goes double...
This modernist feel was especially punctuated by guest conductor Christoph Eschenbach who donned a black (of course) collarless (priest?) buttonless (zipper?) shirt. Eschenbach's every motion was like clean staccato, a human metronome for the orchestra. And even special guest Midori's movements seemed strangely reminiscent of C3PO. The analogy should probably wisely end here...