Word: maestro
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During the Sydney Games, Leo Schofield is hoping for some crossover curiosity. As maestro of the Olympic Arts Festival, which opens this week, he has brought some 4,000 artists from around the globe to compete for attention over the next six weeks. In founding the modern Games, Baron Pierre de Coubertin sought to recreate ancient Olympia, when "letters and the arts were always harmoniously combined with sport." But after his Pentathlon of the Muses was abandoned in 1948, Olympic arts have often been sidelined by sport. "Whatever festival you mount, it will only ever be a pendant event...
...tradition we at FM heartily endorse--by storm, we then braved the rain to sip tea with the aesthetes and fishies at the Signet. After a brief intermission, FM reconvened for cocktails and some "Cheeseburger in Paradise," which, fyi, doubles as a restaurant in Maui. But even with the maestro in attendance, there were a couple of things missing. Considering the available options, we needed to swell our ranks and hit the town...
...Maestro Isaiah Jackson '66, guest conductor of the Boston Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, knows the musical offerings of Harvard well. Graduating cum laude in history and literature of Russia, Jackson began to pursue his musical interest more intensively at Harvard. Although he had been playing the piano since he was four and had sung in the choir at his prep school, Jackson's parents discouraged him from pursuing a career in music. He explains, "It was a long time ago. There simply were no African-Americans in the classical music arena." He found Harvard to be a place "where...