Word: amsterdam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 (Philips, 2 LPs). Bernard Haitink leads Amsterdam's Concertgebouw Orchestra in a serene, glowing performance...
...newly elected Harvard seniors include Jonathan Blair Amsterdam '81 of Dunster House. Thomas E. Anderson '83 of North House. Stephen C Blacklow '83 of Leverett House. Jonathan Cedarbaum '83 of Currier House. Lawrence M Cohen '83 of Currier House. Gregory A Dumanian '83 of Kirk land House. Peter A. Fleischer '83 of Lowell House. Sung Bin Im '83 of Eliot house. Alan Kent Jones '83 of Quincy House. Jason Dreyfun Kahn '83 of North House. Kenneth C Keeler '83 of Leverett House. Michael J Larsen '83 of Quincy House. Paul Poh-Yen Lin '83 of Mather House. John Scott Martin...
...world's great orchestras, which is the best? Some say the Chicago Symphony, for its brilliant virtuosity and blazing brass. Others nominate the Vienna Philharmonic, for its rich, burnished tone, or the Philadelphia Orchestra, for the sheen of its strings. The Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra has its champions, who admire its crisp ensemble playing. But there is one orchestra that combines all these characteristics: Herbert von Karajan's Berlin Philharmonic, which went to New York City's Carnegie Hall last week for the first time in six years, and in four sold-out concerts promptly laid claim...
...spite of such skepticism, minimalism has grown rapidly in popularity. Last fall, Glass's visionary opera Satyagraha sold out five performances at the Brooklyn Academy of Music after being performed successfully at Artpark in upstate New York and in Europe. At the Royal Palace in Amsterdam last May, Glass's newest music-theater piece, The Photographer, was premiered at a command performance for Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands. And in Chicago this summer, 10,000 listeners at Grant Park lustily cheered a performance of Adams' powerful 1981 choral piece, Harmonium. "When I was a student," says Adams...
Silvera did both his undergraduate and graduate work at the University of California at Berkeley, where he was a student of Tinkham's. Before he went to Amsterdam, he worked on basic research at a laboratory operated by the aerospace corporation Rockwell International...