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...rain-battered August day in Edinburgh, and inside the city's Usher Hall the conductor Gustavo Dudamel is having difficulty with the strings. It is the final rehearsal of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 10, and Dudamel wants the violins to be more biting and caustic. Any successful performance of Shostakovich's 10th must reflect its historical context: Stalin's purges; some 20 million dead; a composer who lived in constant fear of the knock on the door. "Muchachos," Dudamel says, searching for the right expression. "Pop pop pop!" he says, mimicking the sound of a firing squad...
...alone among serious directors who, when they make an action film, want it to be More Than. Well, forget that. Just get an audience caught up in the Bourne web. Making a good action film is its own conspicuous achievement, and Greengrass is a superb spinner of plates. And conductor of stunts. And car scenes. Bourne runs through three or four each movie - those indestructo-cars that can be rammed and smashed, spun, stripped and flipped and still outrace and outlast all pursuers...
Alan T. Gilbert ’89, the chief conductor of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, will be the new music director of New York Philharmonic beginning in September 2009, the organization announced Tuesday...
Gilbert was also the music director and Conductor of the Bach Society Orchestra (BachSoc) during his senior year. Each season, an undergraduate leads BachSoc, selecting the repertoire, organizing practices, and conducting performances...
Gilbert was also the assistant conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra. In May, he stepped down as music director of the Santa Fe Opera, and, next season, he’ll end his tenure with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, a post he has occupied since...