Word: orchestra
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...save one slot every year for a silent film, to be accompanied by a live orchestra. Why do you do that? And what title have you chosen...
...Well, I love silent films. The Alloy Orchestra of Cambridge, Mass. performs all over the country with their own scores for silent films. I first heard them at the Telluride Festival. This year they're appearing with [Josef] von Sternberg's The Last Command (1928), starring Emil Jannings as a general from Czarist Russia who loses his rank and everything else...
James Yannatos raised the baton for his first concert as Music Director of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, the oldest symphony orchestra in the nation, in 1964. And after conducting for 45 years, leading 11 international tours, and guiding thousands of young musicians, “Dr. Y”—as he is affectionately known—stepped up to the Sanders Theatre podium for the last time on Friday night, conducting a moving concert that was at once a commemoration, a celebration, a look back, and a look forward.The program reflected the sentiments of the evening...
...ceilings and décor befitting the hotel's origins in a pair of adjoining 19th century townhouses. In its vicinity are the Teatro Colon, tel: (57-1) 284 7420 - a gold-encrusted, neo-Italianate 135-year-old performance venue that is home to the Colombian National Symphony Orchestra - and Artesanias de Colombia, www.artesaniasdecolombia.com.co, a government-sponsored showcase for handmade masks, pottery, jewels, carpets and other Colombian handiwork...
...believes that "orchestras need to figure out how to be relevant and reach new audiences," the most fascinating aspect of the YouTube orchestra is its vision of community. "The purpose of music and maybe even the purpose of life is to connect with people and create," he says. Whether that will work musically is anyone's guess. But it is undoubtedly, as Moe puts it, a "really fun experiment." And for the performers, there's not much to lose. "I'm so glad someone is footing the bill!" Moe says...