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...tuning up, the shrill whistle of the flute called me to the edge of the stage. I slid between a girl cladin a plaid dress with a big bow at the neck and a young couple dressed in formal wear. The yellowed, dried-out score lay open on the conductor's podium--"Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky" it read in spidery-flowing script...
...young couple smiled and waved at the conductor, returning to their seats to socialize. The little girl on my other side was still hanging onto the ledge which overlooked the orchestra. An elderly violinist looked up, saw the little girl, and waved her bow ever so slightly. She then looked at my friend and me, her face blank. We returned to our seats...
...Boston Symphony Orchestra offers a children's series for some area students, said HRO conductor James D. Yannatos, a senior lecturer on music at Harvard. But he added that "in Cambridge there are no children's concerts as such. This is a way of filling a vacuum for kids who wouldn't have a chance to see a concert...
Tokuno, who conducts each section in individual rehearsals, says, "I work [the sections] up so that each plays as a unit on its own. [Each] section works as a single instrument." Thus, when conductor Richard Laraga rehearses with the entire ensemble, he "conducts sections," not individual instruments, Tokuno says...
...which were republished four years ago and became a best seller after a PBS documentary last year on her life, she left out her volcanic love affairs, which seem to have numbered in the dozens and included alliances with such notable gents as Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, and Conductor Leopold Stokowski...