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Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra; Harvard Alumni Association Head Wine Steward--25th, 30th, and 50th Reunions; Harvard-Radcliffe Conductor's Orchestra; House Intramurals...
...Hours; the protesters felt the sequence ridiculed fat people. Conservationists were appalled at the waste of water in Sorcerer's Apprentice. Fundamentalist Christians bewailed ) the depiction of evolution in Rite of Spring. Antidrug forces suspected something subliminally prodrug in the Nutcracker Suite episode featuring dancing mushrooms. Only Fantasia conductor Leopold Stokowski escaped chastisement, perhaps because he is dead...
...hard test for us," says chief designer Valery Levental, "because nobody knew how to produce an opera- ballet at a contemporary theater. The tradition was long gone." Director Boris Pokrovsky had the imaginative idea of using dolls to represent the main characters from time to time, but conductor Aleksander Lazarev sees Mlada's importance in musical terms: "Mlada's music is aimed at this 20th century of ours. Its living lines extend to the pagan music of Stravinsky and Prokofiev...
...Professor Johnson is the key to the restoration of the 100 percent intellectual health of the department and she deserves full credit," says Kilson. "Johnson was an incredible conductor...
GOULD CONDUCTS WAGNER (Sony Classical). Shortly before his death in 1982, the legendary pianist Glenn Gould decided to experiment with the idea of becoming a conductor. Since he had abdicated the concert stage 18 years earlier, he & quietly rented a hall and hired some members of the Toronto Symphony. Though most famous for his electric keyboard interpretations of Bach, Gould chose for his orchestral debut Wagner's Siegfried Idyll, which he took at a glacially languorous tempo. When it was over, he blurted onto the tape an accurate verdict: "Gorgeous! Magnificent! Heartbreaking!" Along with that performance, the newly released album...