Word: conductor
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André Previn, guest conductor...
While the eyes are being ravished, so are the ears. Conductor Jane Glover leads a scintillating performance by unusually nimble-fingered string players and by singers of passionate virtuosity--notably countertenor David Daniels in the title role and soprano Dana Hanchard as his reluctant Turkish prize. What seems at first arcane and distant becomes hypnotically human--opera on a level of taste, imagination and musicality that would do any of the world's most celebrated opera houses proud...
...disclosures appear in Divided Lives (Simon & Schuster; $23), by a close friend of Worby's, Washington Post reporter Elsa Walsh, who set out to penetrate the ambivalences of three accomplished women as they struggle to balance their professional and private lives. Besides conductor Worby, the book includes chapters on ABC television personality Meredith Vieira and Dr. Alison Estabrook, chief of breast surgery at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in Manhattan. But it was the Worby chapter that provoked its own backlash last week, not only because of Worby's frank discussion of her sexual history (and the tattoo emblazoned...
...steamy romance novel, these slightly titillating words would cause scarcely a ripple. But in West Virginia last week, they and other passages in a newly published book created a political tsunami. For "Gaston" is Democratic Governor Gaston Caperton; and the object of his beneficence was his wife Rachael Worby, conductor of the Wheeling Symphony Orchestra, leader of Carnegie Hall's young people's concerts and, beyond any doubt, the most controversial first lady in the state's history...
...Nagano grew up on a 500-acre artichoke farm on the West Coast halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco. He studied conducting at San Francisco State University and sang with the San Francisco Opera chorus before joining Sarah Caldwell's Opera Company of Boston as an apprentice conductor. Returning to the Bay Area in 1979, he won a reputation by leading the small Berkeley Promenade Orchestra (now the Berkeley Symphony) in such unlikely concert-opera ventures as Hans Pfitzner's Palestrina and Janacek's The Excursions of Mr. Broucek...