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Finally, aside from an exhortation to go see this play, kudos are in order for the entire orchestra, its conductor, Richard Shore, and its excellent triangle player...
...Hunsberger conducting the Eastman-Dryden Orchestra (Arabesque). KURT WEILL: Stratas Sings Weill. Soprano Teresa Stratas, with Gerard Schwarz conducting the Y Chamber Symphony (Nonesuch). Americans seem to have show music in their blood, even when they were immigrants like Weill (Germany) and Herbert (Ireland). Herbert, a cello virtuoso and conductor who directed the Pittsburgh Symphony from 1898 to 1904, wanted to be taken seriously -- as did, similarly, Sir Arthur Sullivan -- but it was his 40-odd operettas (Babes in Toyland, Naughty Marietta) that won him lasting fame. Hunsberger leads crisp, snappy performances of several rousing marches and show tunes...
...former conductor of the New York Philharmonic orchestra was unavailable for comment. Hanselman did not know Bernstein's annual contribution to the fund...
Leonard Bernstein '39 will begin making contributions to a scholarship fund in his name this year, ending the world-renowned conductor's three-year self-imposed estrangement from his alma mater's cultural and financial affairs...
...conductor and composer was in town to help celebrate Harvard's 350th anniversary. Bernstein delivered the speech after a dinner held in Memorial Hall...