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...orchestra continues to provide a training ground for talented young conductors and some of the biggest names on the classical music scene. After an audition process in which three finalists were selected from a group of 10 applicants, Bach Soc recently chose Alexander S. Misono ’04 as its conductor for the new season...
Misono has already established a strong presence as a conductor at Harvard, most prominently as assistant conductor of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra last year. Misono says that it taught him “about directing peers and colleagues, many of whom were older...
...addition to the Stravinsky under Misono’s baton, outgoing conductor Sean H. Ryan ’03 will lead the rest of the program tonight, which will also include Azura Rising by Ben E. Green ’06, winner of the orchestra’s annual composition competition, Ligeti’s Ramifications, Barber’s Adagio for Strings and de Falla’s El Amor Brujo—which Ryan says he has wanted to conduct since last year...
Both Misono and Ryan say they are considering careers in conducting. Earlier this year, Ryan met former Bach Soc conductor Alan T. Gilbert ’89, who was in town to conduct the Boston Symphony Orchestra...
BOSTON PHILHARMONIC. The Boston Philharmonic Orchestra returns to Sanders to play pieces by Debussy, Chausson, Harbison, Saint-Saëns and Ravel. Just prior to the concert, a lecture by conductor Benjamin Zander, a former pupil of Benjamin Britten, a music commentator, and the author of The Art of Possibility: Transforming Personal and Professional Life, will offer a prefatory note on the music to follow. His lecture promises to be lively and passionate (it is said that two-thirds of the concert audience attends the lecture—a loyal following). Sunday, April 27. Lecture 1:45 p.m. Concert...