Word: conductor
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...Adams was far from immune to bad reviews, with one Crimson critic writing in 1967, “The Bach Society Orchestra concert was the major disappointment of last week’s musical offerings. Many heads could roll when a collective effort like this goes awry, but the conductor, John Adams is the one who must stand in the dock.”“I remember being just shocked and upset,” Adams says of that concert and its reception. “It was the first time I ever got a real stinker...
...music is written for our performance.” But the drama of a Pops performance involves much more than film. This week’s concert, “Pops Travels Back to the Future,” will incorporate time-travel antics. “Our conductor tends to get shot in every performance,” says Weinbloom. “In the case of this concert, someone will be killed early on in the program, and the orchestra will have to go back in time to correct it.” The orchestra normally performs...
...path of maintaining a successful career as both a conductor and composer is a perilous one. Few have succeeded. For instance, Gustav Mahler was known primarily as a conductor during his lifetime. His busy conducting schedule forced him to compose mostly during the summertime, and what he did compose often drew harsh comments from critics...
...evening and imbued her solos with the graceful power that emanates naturally from an artist fully in command of her craft.Bartosik’s performance was the centerpiece of BachSoc’s Junior Parents’ Weekend concert. In front of a crowded hall, music director and conductor Aram V. Demirjian ’08 led the entirely student-run orchestra through a program of Beethoven, Grieg, and Schumann.A spirit of youthful exuberance pervaded the night—sometimes at the expense of the furniture. The members of BachSoc clearly took pride in their self-reliant nature. Responding...
...surprised? It was only natural that the men who, as President Nixon's Secretary of State, had opened relations between the U.S. and the People's Republic of China should be in attendance at Lincoln Center for the Met's first-ever opera by a Chinese composer-conductor...