Word: conductor
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...uptown Manhattan during rehearsals for Pan Asian Rep's Cambodia Agonistes, conductor and composer Jack Jarrett, 71, taps a key on his laptop to tweak the tempo for the dancers. Looking bohemian in a black turtleneck and wire-rimmed specs, Jarrett's doing his musical director thing. Back home in Greensboro, N.C., he's got another job--as vice president of R&D for software start-up VirtuosoWorks...
...West Side Story” composer Leonard Bernstein ’39. As part of the course, to be taught this spring jointly by Watts Professor of Music Kay K. Shelemay and Mason Professor of Music Carol J. Oja, students will interview people who knew the world-renowned conductor and composer. “There have been a number of Berstein biographies,” Oja explained. “Each biography, of course, covers the whole of his life, but the depth of information about the early years is not huge.” Bernstein’s works...
...these days. Since Palestinian leaders announced a halt to the intifadeh in February and Israel's tanks pulled back, Ramallah has seen a burst of creativity. In July, a $5 million Palace of Culture, funded by the U.N. and Japan, opened with performances by local poets and musicians. Israeli conductor Daniel Barenboim brought his orchestra to the town in August. Ben Kingsley screened a version of Gandhi dubbed in Arabic to promote nonviolent resistance. The town's cinema - the only one in the West Bank - reopened, and musicians founded a school to teach classical Arabic music in Ramallah...
...Little’” and Antonio Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons,” as well as narration by Joan Kennedy, whose words will be interpreted in American Sign Language by Caroline Jackson. Featuring Joseph Silverstein, former BOS concertmaster and assistant conductor. Sanders Theatre. 3 p.m. Tickets available through the Harvard Box Office, (617) 496-2222. $48/32/22/12/5. (KAF) Thursday, Dec. 1Ruddigore, or The Witch’s Curse. The Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players perform one of the duo’s most magical operettas, which parodies its period?...
...Cohler’s time is spent abroad: he has showcased his musical talent in Venezuela, Brazil, and Portugal. As a member of the faculty at Cambridge’s Longy School of Music, Cohler is still tied to the Cambridge community. He is currently the Music Director and Conductor of the Brockton Symphony Orchestra and the assistant conductor of the Youth Philarmonic Orchestra of the New England Conservatory...