Word: bruckner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Status symbols are precise and demanding, though in Los Alamos as in places like Cambridge, Mass., class is projected through such things as battered cars and withered clothes. Nuclear families here "are headed by a father who never had a stray thought, uncertainty or doubt," explains Father Ronald L. Bruckner, pastor of Immaculate Heart of Mary Roman Catholic Church. "These are self-made men who, if they had a doubt, also had a standard deviation formula to solve...
Hubbard's music does not, as a result, offend the listener. It's not execrable. It is just extraordinarily dull. As a pianist/composer, Hubbard sounds like Bruckner rewritten for the dentist's office. Which is too bad, because Hubbard really can be quite a nice person, and she will go out of her way to try very hard to make you believe what she writes is in some way worthy of serious artistic attention...
Tennstedt will offer a complementary repertoire as principal guest conductor, favoring Bruckner, Strauss and Mahler. The former director of the State Orchestra in Schwerin, Tennstedt has a fluid line, springy beat and a confident technical mastery. He has never formally studied conducting. "Oh, you can learn tricks," he observes. "But the contact with an orchestra? You must have...
DIED. Willem Van Otterloo, 70, longtime no-nonsense conductor of The Hague Philharmonic Orchestra; in a car accident in Melbourne, Australia. Noted for his unsentimental interpretations of latter-day romantics like Bruckner, Van Otterloo led the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra from 1965 to 1971, and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra from...
...University Choir, under the direction of John Ferris, presents Bruckner's Mass in e as part of Cambridge Concert Series. First Congregational Church at 11 Garden Street, 8 pm. Repeat performance on Saturday...