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...Founded by Maestro Paul Freeman, the Chicago Sinfonietta - the most racially diverse orchestra in the country, according to a recent survey - has long struck a chord with fans of innovative classical music. "We've done some pretty wacky things," says executive director Jim Hirsch. "You haven't heard anything until you've heard thirty steel drums banging simultaneously with an orchestra." Hirsch says the Sinfonietta had also hosted concerts with bagpipes, and once featured an Indonesian gamelan orchestra, using gongs and mallet-struck instruments. Two years ago, the Sinfonietta collaborated with alternative rock band Poi Dog Pondering in a "remix...
...AUDIO: Hear a ring tone medley that is joined by the Chicago Sinfonietta performing Beethoven. The project was conceived by Maestro Paul Freeman, left
...Alan Greenspan ended his 18-year reign as Federal Reserve Chairman last week, yque.com was primed to capitalize on the maestro's legacy--and bizarre pop-culture appeal
DIED. SKITCH HENDERSON, 87, avuncular, Grammy-winning maestro of TV's Golden Age; in New Milford, Conn. Born Lyle Russell Cedric Henderson, the classically trained musician got his start on radio shows starring Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby (who gave him his nickname) before landing a job as the Tonight Show's first bandleader. With his Vandyke beard and audience-participation games, he was a key part of the show, bantering with Steve Allen and, later, Johnny Carson. After a jail stint for income-tax evasion, he founded the symphonic orchestra New York Pops, which he directed until his death...
...After tongue-twisting comments by Greenspan to the Economic Club in New York City in 1995, headlines reflected the confusion he had sown. GREENSPAN HINTS FED MAY CUT INTEREST RATES, read the Washington Post. DOUBTS VOICED BY GREENSPAN ON A RATE CUT, said the New York Times. But the Maestro was clear about one thing: "Since becoming a central banker I have learned to mumble with great incoherence," he said in 1987. "If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said...