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...orchestra to tune up. Then, from a double door, the frail, stooped figure began a slow walk to the podium, his right hand gripping a sturdy cane, his left on the shoulder of an associate. Carefully, the old man settled into his tall chair. At age 94, Conductor Leopold Stokowski was ready last week to cut another record...
...company is celebrating its 20th season as one of the country's most prestigious producers of summer festivals. Its approach meshes old-fashioned craftsmanship with contemporary dash. British Director Peter Wood, who recently worked on the Tony-winning play Travesties, staged the opera as an exuberant parade. Conductor Raymond Leppard, a specialist in 17th century music, was an adventurous choice to lead the orchestra. He responded enthusiastically, adding an overture and some instrumentation of his own devising. Singing the part of Susan B. Anthony is Mignon Dunn, who claims she knows every mezzo and contralto role in Wagner...
Indian Hill Chamber Orchestra, Willis Traphagen, conductor, at Decordova Museum, Lincoln. Info...
Margaret started piano lessons at age five, and by eight knew that she wanted to become a conductor. She set about mastering a wide variety of orchestral instruments; she tooted the baritone horn in her high school band and played the double bass in the orchestra at Indiana University. She was also a junior golf champion and a wartime civilian flying instructor for the Navy. When she graduated from college in 1947, one of her teachers warned her that orchestra conducting was a male preserve, and so she went to the Juilliard School to study choral conducting with Robert Shaw...
...conductor is only as good as his orchestra, and Arledge has given himself an Olympian team of about 30 commentators-not too many woodwinds, please-complemented by a crew of 470, including directors, cameramen, technicians. Anchor man is Jim McKay, the Walter Cronkite of TV sports, who, in a tempo as neatly clipped as his hair, will provide an overview and summaries of events...