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...first half of the evening ended with a feisty rendition of Brahms’s “Vergebliches Ständchen,” (“Lovers’ Quarrel”) by Laurence H. S. Coderre ’07. Soprano Katie Alexandra Woolf, the assistant conductor of RCS, assumed the stage for the latter half of the recital, bringing the audience into the twentieth century with songs by Francis Poulenc and Dominick Argento. Exuding charisma and charm, she switched in and out of her many roles with graceful composure, one minute a glass bottle frustrated with...
...winners’ dorm-room doors last Saturday evening to announce the good news—all except for Blazek. In his case, they interrupted his Glee Club rehearsal.“They had already gotten to Lowell Lecture Hall and talked to one of the assistant conductors about why they were there,” he said. “I came in and sat down. Right after we started singing, the assistant conductor started gesturing. I was really confused until I saw a group of people from the committee walking towards...
...businessmen hold up Mittal's success as an example of what Indian financial and managerial acumen can achieve, given the right global opportunities. Perhaps. But nobody asks this: Would Mittal have been as successful if he had remained in India? Why do so many of our success stories - from conductor Zubin Mehta to economist Amartya Sen to author Salman Rushdie - live abroad? Is there something about the Indian environment that discourages achievement? Whenever globally successful businessmen have come back home, they have failed to replicate their international record. Even the Mittals are far more successful abroad than they...
...think he as a conductor increasingly felt uncomfortable with his handicap,” Wolff said. “But it didn’t discourage him from making great music...
...left New Jersey for Massachusetts to become the third conductor of the Harvard Glee Club, a post he held until 1970. But even after he gave up the baton, Forbes maintained a quiet presence at Harvard music events...