Word: conductor
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...debut last year, the soft-spoken, long-haired Nagano, 43, has so far managed to avoid the kind of premature hype that can capsize a career. Indeed, the onetime beach boy from Morro Bay, California, is still not widely known in the U.S., holding only the modest post of conductor of the Berkeley Symphony. "There's nothing wrong with wanting to be well known," says Nagano, "but that doesn't work for me. I just try to let my enthusiasm for what I'm doing guide me to where I'm going...
Mostly he has been doing that overseas. Simultaneously, Nagano is music director in Lyons, France; leader of the venerable Halla Orchestra in Manchester, England; and associate principal guest conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra. As flamboyant on the podium as his mentor Seiji Ozawa but far more probing and analytical, Nagano wields his baton with the alan of a lion tamer cracking a whip. His lank, dark hair flies, his arms soar skyward, and a broad smile crosses his face: the laid-back, almost diffident surfer dude is suddenly transformed into the happiest dervish in the world...
...process by which Beverly Taylor was replaced by Jameson Marvin as conductor of the Radcliffe Choral Society was presented in a May article in The Crimson ("Taylor Is Replaced as Choral Director," news story, May 24, 1995) as if all parties concerned were simply delighted by the situation. In fact, the process was troubling and painful to many of Beverly's admirers, who will be left deeply saddened by her departure. As a result of the change, Harvard will lose a brilliant conductor and exemplary human being. At the most recent concert of the HRC, the spontaneous outpouring of support...
This did not consider the opinion of those students who favored Bev's conducting style. Why the plan did not consist of affording all three choruses the benefit of both conductors' expertise remains unclear; however, a large number of concerned students, alumni and music professionals held the opinion that the choral program at Harvard/Radcliffe would be considerably weakened by the loss of a senior conductor...
...aesthetic sense with which the singer-artist interprets music becomes refined under the influence of more than one conductor. The facility with which the singer-athlete masters vocal mechanics varies by coaching method. The understanding of the singer-student is enhanced by exposure to more than one musical viewpoint...