Word: conductor
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...after students selected him out of six candidates. The man who has nurtured several generations of Harvard musicians says the orchestra was in bad shape organizationally and financially when he first arrived.“There was no permanent position [of music director],” says Yannatos. Conductors of the group quickly came and went. At one point, the concertmaster of the Boston Symphony Orchestra moonlighted as the conductor of the HRO for a few concerts, according to Yannatos.The Harvard University Orchestra had begun playing concerts with the Radcliffe Orchestra in the 1936, and the two groups were merged...
...entire man. All the same, while people will come away impressed by Turner the painter of historic events and modern horrors, one as forceful and sometimes as original as Goya, the man they'll be in awe of is still that other Turner, the incandescent bulb, the great conductor of solar power...
Last Thursday, a crowd of smashingly dressed orchestra aficionados shuffled its way into Boston’s Symphony Hall, five minutes late and snatching last-minute snacks and champagne. It took conductor James Levine bursting through the upstage door to properly get their attention. With a red face and a shock of gray hair, the elated four-year Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) veteran hitched up one pant leg, propped himself up on a stool, and struck up a promising beginning to the Orchestra’s 127th season...
...extravagance of the label was just right. In both his music and his personality, Pavarotti's exuberance was multissimo. His voice - "one of those freaks of nature that comes very rarely in a hundred years," according to conductor Richard Bonynge - had a clear, penetrating timbre, alive with the resonance known to singers as "ping." At the same time it radiated a gorgeously warm romantic sheen. He produced it with an unforced, open-throated quality that Italians call lasciarsi andare - letting it pour forth...
Simon Rattle, one of Dudamel's mentors, has called him "the most astonishingly gifted conductor I have ever come across." Daniel Barenboim and Claudio Abbado lavish similar praise on him - a virtual anointing by the three giants of European conducting. Deutsche Grammophon has given Dudamel a record deal, and, between now and mid-October he is on a high-profile European tour that will take him to historic concert halls in Germany, Sweden, Italy and France. So what makes Dudamel so special? The role of a conductor is at once comprehensible and untranslatable. The task is dauntingly clear: to mold...