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Since its inception in 1975, the Learning From Performers series has sponsored visits to Harvard by such notables as actor Robert Redford, playwright Arthur Miller and cellist Mstislav Rostropovich...
Since its start in 1975, the Learning From Performers program has brought a range of artistic luminaries 'o Harvard, including playwright Arthur Miller, actor Robert Redford, and classical cellist Mstislav Rostropovich
Music is a natural metaphor to Sennett, for he spent his boyhood training to be a professonal cellist. While getting his A.B. at the University of Chicago, he also was accepted as a student of conducting under Monteux. At the age of 21, as he came onstage to begin a cello recital, the nervous tension became too great. "I vomited into my cello," he recalls with a grimace. "I can laugh about it now, but at the time it was . .." Words fail...
...York in 1964, would play a piano and then topple it over onstage; he would cut a pianist's shirttails to shreds with scissors, or stage a little musical "event" by dragging a violin along the sidewalk on a string, like a scraped and protesting pet. A cellist, Charlotte Moorman, would appear for Paik at a concert and play her instrument with tiny TV sets rigged over her breasts; or, to the scandal and amusement of the New York art world in 1967, she would perform topless...
Leonard Slatkin. 37, of the St. Louis Symphony. The leader of this first-class orchestra comes by his music loving naturally. Growing up in Los Angeles, Slatkin heard his violinist father and cellist mother play chamber music regularly as half of the Hollywood String Quartet. Slatkin on the podium maintains tight control over his orchestra; his performances are marked by precision and a command of musical architecture that permits him to bring off unwieldly pieces like Rachmaninoffs uncut Second Symphony...