Word: conductors
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...University will today confer honorary degrees on 11--including a celebrated conductor, a key benefactor, a Holocaust-survivor-turned- pioneering entrepreneur and three Nobel laureates...
...ball, and look over here at me, and I'll tell you what to do. I'll put you in a position where you can win by one or two points, because it's my strategy in the end." Wooden gave you the freedom to perform. He was the conductor of a free-form symphony. He always said, "Don't look over here at the sideline. I've already done my job. When the game starts, it's about you guys having fun playing a game and doing your best...
...conductor's baton comes to a dramatic halt. The orchestra's final note rings in the air. There is a split second of awed silence, then thunderous applause as the audience expresses its appreciation...
...first-nighters earlier this month jumped to their feet and shouted with understandable delight. Now brazen and glittering, now radiantly visionary, the Liebermann Second, a resplendent choral symphony based on the poetry of Walt Whitman, is the work of a composer unafraid of grand gestures and openhearted lyricism. Says conductor Litton, who picked Liebermann, 39, as the orchestra's composer-in-residence: "Lowell is proving that new classical music doesn't have to be Brussels sprouts--it can also be steak...
...cusp of major careers. This summer, for its 25th anniversary season, it will present four works in repertory, including the well-known--La Boheme and Salome--and the neglected: Handel's Acis and Galatea and The Glass Blowers, a 1913 operetta by John Philip Sousa. Though he became conductor of the U.S. Marine Band in 1880, Sousa always longed to write for the stage. Set during the Spanish-American War, The Glass Blowers recalls an era of unabashed patriotism and sentimentality. The 43 performances run from July 7 through Aug. 29 in Glimmerglass's charming opera house, located...