Word: conductor
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Hearing chamber music is the aural equivalent of a theatrical experience. Without a conductor, the players assume independent roles, taking turns delivering their “lines” as solos. Take, for example, Franz Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden” string quartet, a passionate work that features the cello as a tragic heroine. Without the utterance of a single word, the instruments engage in heated arguments or profess their lyrical love for one another...
Wednesday, March 2. An Open Rehearsal with Conductor Leonard Slatkin. Open rehearsal of Bach Society Orchestra in honor of 50th anniversary. 8 p.m. Sanders Theater Free...
World-renowned pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim will join Harvard’s faculty next year as the Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, the University announced last week...
...chemistry concentrator in Cabot house. As a longtime conductor of the Clue Train, he has often been overheard shouting, “Woo woo! All aboard!” His column, “On My Nerves,” will investigate things that bother him on campus —which is to say, just about everything and, in particular, intellectual dishonesty. His column will appear on alternate Mondays...
Think Vladimir Putin's iron rule has turned Russia into a land of obedient, beaten-down people? Not in Cherkessk, a city of 140,000 in the Caucasus. A bus conductor there asked an elderly disabled passenger to pay his fare last week and the old man used his crutches to pummel the conductor - because he'd never had to pay before. Not in Tula, 165 km south of Moscow, where more than 40 such assaults on bus and tram conductors were recorded in just three days. Not in Khimki on the outskirts of Moscow, where several thousand travelers heading...