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...barreling along in Act II of Berlioz's The Trojans. Troy is in flames. The Greeks are rampaging. As conductor John Eliot Gardiner whips the orchestra to a boil, the prophetess Cassandra (Anna Caterina Antonacci) soars into an aria of despair and defiance, urging the other Trojan women to kill themselves. But hold on. Let's take a moment to hear how director Yannis Kokkos sees this scene. (Cassandra's "vision of fatality," he says, achieves for Troy "a kind of revenge by immolation.") Next, let's cut to Gardiner. (Conducting this music, he says, is "so deeply moving because...
...diplomatic, I'll tell you the most fun sections are percussion, lower brass and bass players. They all seem to have good senses of humor and love life. They're sitting in the back of the orchestra, they check out the conductor, the audience. They usually have lots of time to make jokes...
While many productions squirrel their conductor away in the orchestra pit, Don Giovanni refreshingly features its conductor at center stage. Indeed, even audiences can appreciate the clear musical direction and easy-to-follow beats of the LHO’s magician at work, Gund Unviersity Organist and Choirmaster Edward E. Jones. As the music director, he is the essential glue that holds the instrumentalists and vocalists together...
Each group was assigned a conductor (a student member of the wind ensemble) and given a list of noises to be produced, as directed by the conductor. Among the requests to snap, stomp, and cluck, was one particularly challenging assignment: “With mouth closed, project the highest and loudest sound you can, very sharply. This should sound like the squeak of a gigantic mouse...
Sunday, March 13. Handel & Haydn present Hogwood and Haydn. Featuring conductor laureate Christopher Hogwood and his new arrangement of Haydn’s Seven Last Words and readings by Reverend Peter J. Gomes. 8 p.m. Sanders Theater. $30-60, students...