Word: orchestra
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Brigada S (or the S Brigade, christened by lead singer Igor Sukachev because he liked the letter S) has become one of the most popular of the new generation of rock bands. Although the four-year-old group has yet to produce an album, the self-described "Proletarian Jazz Orchestra" enjoys a tremendous following. Teens from Tallinn to Vladivostok spray-paint the band's name, with the Russian equivalent of S drawn like a Communist hammer and sickle, on walls of public buildings...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Ensemble Society presents a collection of works by Beethoven and other topics this weekend in a free orchestra concert at Paine Hall...
...Marriage of Figaro, bar none, remains one of the most beloved operas of any composer. This comedy of mismatched lovers and mistaken identities contains some of the most uplifting and well-crafted of Mozart's music. And, thanks to some superb singing and character acting, along with a solid orchestra performance under the direction of Music Director Benjamin Loeb, the Lowell House Opera's Marriage of Figaro more than lives up to the ambitious musical challenge of putting on a full-scale opera in a house dining hall...
Granted, this is Harvard, not La Scala. I walked into the Lowell House dining hall expecting to be only pleasantly surprised. I remembered the Lowell House Opera productions of the past, with competent singers having to double-project over a multitudinous orchestra placed in front of the stage, keeping audience members from having a clear view...
...Lowell House Opera Director Allison Charney, who doubled quite beautifully as Cherubino in the performance, seems to have discovered how to get singers heard over the strains of the orchestra. The orchestra plays behind a scrim with an intricate television camera hook-up between conductor and cast, leaving the singers room to really project their voices and have a fun time doing...