Word: conductor
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...Boston Symphony recently hosted guest conductor Bernard Haitink and pianist Andras Schiff in music of Brahms and Beethoven. These pieces were preceded by some rather tepid Tippett, the ritual dances from The Midsummer Marriage. That music will receive no further comment, except that the reading was rather soporific from an ensemble that so prides itself on favored-stepson status with the late British composer...
...Boston Symphony recently hosted guest conductor Bernard Haitink and pianist Andras Schiff in music of Brahms and Beethoven. These pieces were preceded by some rather tepid Tippett, the ritual dances from The Midsummer Marriage. That music will receive no further comment, except that the reading was rather soporific from an ensemble that so prides itself on favored-stepson status with the late British composer...
...head TF for Chem 5 and 7; another 300 or so from my role as a resident tutor in Eliot House. In addition, I was the music director for the Gilbert and Sullivan show this fall, and I just returned from a spring tour as assistant conductor of the Glee Club...
...background. When we were first-years, my entryway occasionally watched >=Jeopardy=Of the three aB s,=the one who left town when rejected as Philharmonic conductor of his native Hamburg.=Bach, Who is Bach?=Brahms, maybe.=Oh no, I m sorry, we were looking for Johannes Brahms on that one. Player 2 choose again.=Oh yeah, I knew that, because....=Celebrate the Charles River Festival=Jeopardy=Just tell everyone you missed it by one question,=Tough day?=They called me,=they=aJeopardy called me. They want me to fly out later this month, and I don t know...
Last Friday at a rehearsal for tonight's Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra concert, conductor James Yannatos added words to his baton gestures and shed light on this apparent mystery: I got a glimpse of the conductor qua taskmaster...