Word: concert
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Last Friday at a rehearsal for tonight's Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra concert, conductor James Yannatos added words to his baton gestures and shed light on this apparent mystery: I got a glimpse of the conductor qua taskmaster...
There were three blind mice, three little pigs and three Stooges. And after tonight, there will have been three Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra subscription concerts. Perhaps coincidentally, conductor Maestro James Yannatos will lead the Orchestra as they play Pistons Symphony No. 3 as well as Don Juan by Strauss. But wait. That's not all. Professor Mark Devoto and Professor Emeritus Eliot Forbes will give a pre-concert lecture. Sanders Theatre. Tickets 496-2222. Concert at 8 p.m., lecture at 7 p.m. $8-$13 general, $6-$10 for students...
...when I got locked out of the sorority system. It's easy to laugh now, but it felt awful back then because the Greek houses dominated the campus social scene. There wasn't much else to do besides seeing a movie or catching a Suzanne Vega concert at the campus performing-arts center. For all the pride my mother felt at sending her daughter to an Ivy League school, my own self-esteem was perilously...
...these superficialities would belie the importance of the true measure of victory, the paramount qualities of grit and mettle that buttress more dimensioned performers. Neither Morisette nor Manson ever maximized their potential in either of these areas, and the supreme entertainment value that each of them brought to the concert couldn't mask these weaknesses. The audience loved Morissette and Garbage for the pomp and rarity of embracing a mutual moment with cultural icons, but the relationship never cut deeper than the shared hype...
...Benjamin Franklin (B.F.) Pinkerton, who abandons his Japanese wife, Cio-Cio San (Butterfly). The story, based on John Luther Longs novella, has been retold, again and again, in such productions as Broadways Miss Saigon and Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado. Most recently, BSO takes on a fully staged concert version of Puccini's opera at Symphony Hall, with the last and final performance this coming Saturday...