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...Christopher T. Bayler '60 says his role asa director to the semi-conductor manufacturerInterpoint Corp. And his position as a Harvardoverseer are very different...
...tenor seizes the title role like Domingo, whose vocal potency and dramatic intensity have redefined the part. As Desdemona, Carol Vaness caresses Verdi's most beautiful music with a pure, radiant soprano, while in the pit, Russian conductor Valery Gergiev, making his Met debut, leads the score with raw power and passion. The live radio broadcast is April 2; be prepared to be taken by storm...
Taylor will also have a new title: theassociate conductor of choral activities. Jamesonwill retain his current job title and continue toconduct the Glee Club and the Collegium Musicum,in addition to leading the Radcliffe group...
Sharp-eyed and keen, Glennie reads lips so fluently that an interlocutor would never know she cannot hear. In performance she watches the conductor and orchestra with a fierce intensity, picking up visual cues and bounding from instrument to instrument with the grace of a natural athlete. She often gets a workout: Dominic Muldowney's astringent Concerto for Percussion, subtitled Figure in a Landscape, which she performed with the Cincinnati Symphony late last month, employs cymbals, marimba, Japanese bells, a pair of bongos, two congas, a vibraphone, four small drums, four wood blocks and several boobams, which are tuned cylindrical...
During recent concert appearances, Sinatra has appeared bothered and bewildered, occasionally missing song cues, forgetting lyrics, rambling insensibly and needling his son and conductor, Frank Sinatra Jr. Reviewers have treated his performances with varying degrees of reverence and revulsion; some calling for the Chairman of the Board's retirement, others allowing that such lapses in memory and manners are to be expected if not excused...