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Richard K. Green '80, conductor of the Harvard Bach Society Orchestra (BSO), told the group at a private meeting last night that he was resigning his post...
...will hold auditions for a conductor and new orchestra members at 7 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 19 at Sanders Theater. The auditions are open to the Harvard undergraduate community...
...When I became conductor of the BSO, I wasn't really a part of the Harvard musical community and didn't have the resources to get the orchestra members that I needed," Green said yesterday after the meeting...
...success on the podium despite his distaste for the hubbub of the per forming life. He demanded unusual expressive nuances from his players, especially in the pianissimo range; musicians joked that he had invented the pensato, a note so subtle that the per former only thought of it. His conductor's scores were meticulously diagrammed in various colors-road maps, as Robert Craft said, to perfect performances. But the price of perfection could be too high. In 1936, preparing the posthumous premiere of Berg's Violin Concerto, Webern covered only eight bars in two rehearsals...
...system of reproducing phone conversations over long distances loudly enough that they could be heard easily, and who may have been the first to shout "hello" into a telephone mouthpiece. His one discovery in basic science-the "Edison effect," the emission of electrons from a heated electric conductor-led eventually to the creation of the electronics industry. which has given the world radio, television, computers, radar and other marvels. Indeed, Edison's inventions are literally too numerous to mention. He set and retains the record for U.S. patents held by an individual, a staggering...