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Ravel's "Tombeau de Couperin" suite opened the program by exhibiting the best qualities of today's BSO. Under Music Director Seiji Ozawa's baton, the orchestra always excels in the playing of modern French masterworks. Add to that experience the wit and insight of Previn, and the result cannot help but please...
...family, House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt of Missouri said at a news conference. "They're doing it not to balance the budget, not even to fix Medicare, but to give a tax break to people who don't need a tax break." President Clinton plans to grab the baton Tuesday at a Medicare "birthday celebration" event on Capitol Hill, while Gephardt, Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala and other Democrats will attend a ceremony marking the anniversary on Sunday in Independence, Mo., where President Johnson signed the legislation into law, sitting beside former President Harry Truman, who had fought...
...doing that overseas. Simultaneously, Nagano is music director in Lyons, France; leader of the venerable Halla Orchestra in Manchester, England; and associate principal guest conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra. As flamboyant on the podium as his mentor Seiji Ozawa but far more probing and analytical, Nagano wields his baton with the alan of a lion tamer cracking a whip. His lank, dark hair flies, his arms soar skyward, and a broad smile crosses his face: the laid-back, almost diffident surfer dude is suddenly transformed into the happiest dervish in the world...
What kind of child she was: She when young but always busy: piano, violin, dancing, acting, tennis, soccer. But "it's the baton-twirling that pretty much shows I was doing everything...
...performers are adding a blue tint to their sound. Last month British-born art screecher PJ Harvey released a blues-shaded album, To Bring You My Love; Houston-born rocker Chris Whitley has just come out with the bluesy CD Din of Ecstasy; and this week Chris Thomas of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, releases his blues-rap album, 21st Century Blues from da Hood...