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...path of maintaining a successful career as both a conductor and composer is a perilous one. Few have succeeded. For instance, Gustav Mahler was known primarily as a conductor during his lifetime. His busy conducting schedule forced him to compose mostly during the summertime, and what he did compose often drew harsh comments from critics...
...evening and imbued her solos with the graceful power that emanates naturally from an artist fully in command of her craft.Bartosik’s performance was the centerpiece of BachSoc’s Junior Parents’ Weekend concert. In front of a crowded hall, music director and conductor Aram V. Demirjian ’08 led the entirely student-run orchestra through a program of Beethoven, Grieg, and Schumann.A spirit of youthful exuberance pervaded the night—sometimes at the expense of the furniture. The members of BachSoc clearly took pride in their self-reliant nature. Responding...
...surprised? It was only natural that the men who, as President Nixon's Secretary of State, had opened relations between the U.S. and the People's Republic of China should be in attendance at Lincoln Center for the Met's first-ever opera by a Chinese composer-conductor...
...theater’s 1166 seats and cheered more boisterously than usual for the black-clad performers as they warmed up under the watchful statues of James Otis and Josiah Quincy.The energy amplified when HRO president Chrix E. Finne ’07 bounded aboard the platform to introduce conductor Dr. James Yannatos, HRO’s buoyant music director since 1964.The performance opened with Giuseppe Verdi’s “Overture to La Forza del Destino,” an opera that follows the story of two clandestine paramours. The overture foreshadows the impending tragedy with...
...years “of great turmoil” during which the Players temporarily became a monarchy—actually. Marshall tells the story best himself: “Prior to 1969, for four or five years, the Players were a quasi-professional theater dominated by brilliant conductor and musical director James Paul. Key orchestra members and several principals were paid,” he writes in the letter.But not all members were satisfied with HRG&SP’s move towards a paid system. Soon, the group shattered.“An acrimonious controversy over this policy...