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Nobody in Chinese officialdom gets angry at Long anymore. The artistic director and chief conductor of the China Philharmonic Orchestra, Long spent this October the way he's spent all his recent Octobers, dashing from concert hall to concert hall around Beijing, joining the capacity crowds jamming into decidedly Chinese venues to hear some decidedly un-Chinese music: Puccini in the Forbidden City; Dido & Aeneas at the Beijing Concert Hall; Handl's Messiah at the Wang Fu Jing Church; Wagner's Tannhäuser at the downtown Poly Theater. People who order their tickets in advance get in; the rest...
...opera - with its volume and bombast - fell similarly flat in the East. But since Western ways were the planet's dominant ones, it was China that was open to learning from the outside. "If a poor country wanted to develop, it had to follow the West," says composer and conductor Guo Wenjing who performed at this year...
Saboor isn't taking any chances. The bus conductor, 30, prepares for his twice-weekly Kabul-to-Kandahar trips by exchanging his city outfit for the filthy tunic and voluminous trousers of a poor mechanic, the better to fool potential robbers. He rubs grease and dirt on his face to conceal from possible Taliban attackers that he is clean-shaven. These precautions, Saboor says, have saved his life. Just the other day, a gang of thieves robbed his passengers at gunpoint. Two weeks ago, Taliban insurgents pulled some 50 passengers off a bus and slaughtered 27 men they falsely claimed...
...There is no excuse for jumping on the Obama bandwagon while ignoring fundamental truisms. American wellbeing and security are at stake, and humanity is justifiably nervous. In these final moments, we have a chance to cling to an illusion of change or grasp a tried-and-true conductor of transformation...
Today, with graceful flicks of his silver baton, he conducts the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, which is currently enjoying its 201st season. At the end of this academic year Yannatos will step down as conductor of HRO and senior lecturer in the music department, concluding his 45 years of affiliation with Harvard...