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Conway's wife Jill, who was president of SmithCollege and is presently a visiting professor ofscience, technology and society at MIT, said herhusband was an avid gardener and had a passion formusic, ballet, outdoor hikes, animals and "anybodywho was generally curious...
After leaving Harvard, Conway held teaching andadministrative positions at York University inToronto, was a member of the boards of theCanadian National Ballet and the Toronto Symphony,and at the time of his death, was a trustee of theBoston Opera Company...
...jazzy, punchy music does create a fluid but vigorous medium on which the actors, many of them ballet dancers, can glide. What the tale has lost in terms of weight, it may have gained in mobility. There's a beautiful wedding fete, for instance, in which even the food takes wing, and an appealingly somber/silly march. Indeed, at times Chronicle looks and sounds positively resuscitative: this colorful show, with its percussive Latin rhythms, could be a tonic for Broadway...
...Karajan and Leonard Bernstein, music lovers have amused themselves with a rather desperate parlor game: Where will the next great maestro come from? And when? Well, here's one answer: from California, and right now. From his dazzling appearances during the past two weeks with the Lyons Opera and Ballet in San Francisco and Berkeley, Kent Nagano has confirmed his spot at the head of the class of young conductors leading music into the future...
...Francisco. Leading Prokofiev's slight, charming fable The Love for Three Oranges, he managed to find wit and poetry in an opera that is often little more than the famous March. Even more impressive was his way with a stripped-down, hopped-up Romeo and Juliet, Prokofiev's great ballet. Designed by the Belgrade-born underground-comic-book illustrator Enki Bilal and choreographed by Angelin Preljocaj, this Romeo takes place in a Mad Max universe where the Capulets and the Montagues are fascist thugs and street ragamuffins, and Juliet sports a bustier whose exaggerated nipples fairly scream "radical Eurotrash reinterpretation...