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...Last-minute replacement Julian Kuerti—now in his second season as the BSO’s assistant conductor??led the orchestra in a clean performance of Brahms’s “Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel.” The brass section’s muddled sounds in the opening harmonies set the BSO off to a shaky start. Following the two introductory phrases, Kuerti eased into the set of 25 variations and a fugue, orchestrated by British composer Edmund Rubbra...
...that this operatic composition has received its greatest success. The HRO’s performance of the short overture, despite handling the crescendos in an almost too-professional manner, still sounded harmonious—thus creating great expectations for what was to come after the intermission. However, to the conductor??s surprise, the stage was only partially full when the brief intermission ended. One of the bass players was missing in action, but this hindrance did not prevent Yannatos from sticking to the schedule and beginning Mahler’s Symphony No. 5, albeit with one musician absent...
...attendees had to create their own outfits to match the star’s signature style. Backstabbing friends were not provided. This event is only the latest in a long tradition of bizarre world records in the Ivy League. For example, Harvard students held the record for the largest conductor??s baton until The University of Pennsylvania’s band debuted their own rod—over 15 feet long—at their homecoming game last October. And in 1972, a dedicated group of Harvard students set a record for the longest monopoly game, playing...
When Harris traded in his mallets for the conductor??s baton on “Grand Unification Theory,” excessive aspiration sometimes edged out simple musicality. “African Tarantella” is no different: the simple appeal of the blues is often buried under the weight of ambition. When sparser arrangements allow the musicians to stretch out, the album succeeds; when lush orchestrations dominate, the music loses clarity and distinction...
...performance. Wolff trekked to Paris immediately after graduation to study conducting with Charles Bruck. He returned to the U.S. for graduate school and a 12-year stint leading the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra in Minneapolis, the nation’s only full-time professional chamber orchestra. The conductor??s penchant for continent-hopping never faded. In 2000, Wolff moved his family to London and became a denizen of the international terminal; for five years, Wolff commuted from England to Germany to serve as Chief Conductor of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony. The classical music tradition is imprinted so deeply...