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...Ironically, I never use a baton," mused Maestro Jose Serebrier, who had gone to Mexico City as guest conductor for an Easter music festival. "I decided to use one for this performance because I thought it would help achieve greater musical control." Alas, it was manual control that was lacking when Serebrier stabbed himself through the hand in the midst of his appassionato performance. While blood splattered his white shirt, the wounded conductor went right on directing the 150-member chorus and brass-percussion ensemble in Mexican Composer Rodolfo Halffter's Proclamation for a Poor Easter. "I managed...
...Band's conductor Thomas G. Everett (who moonlights as president of the international Trombone Association) caught the spirit of P.D.Q. Bach's music, much as millions of P.D.Q.'s contemporaries caught the bubonic plague and various other diseases. After beginning the concert with an accurate and witty performance of Charles Ives's Country Band March. Everett conducted a series of progressively less interesting pieces, as if to lessen the shock of the Serenoodle. And if the Band's playing was occasionally imprecise or out of tune, that was all right. One felt that, somehow, P.D.Q. wouldn't have wanted...
Works of Back and Handel; The New Collegium Linoleum, David Schulenberg, conductor; Dunster Library...
Sibellus Violin Concerto, Brahms Symphony #4, and Ruggles Men and Mountains: Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, James Yannatos, conductor, Lynn Chang, violin soloist; Sanders...
...Ravel Concert including Tombeau de Couperin, Mother Goose Ballet, Pavane for a Dead Princess, and Plano Concerto in G; Hugh Wolff, Conductor, Neal Stulberg, plano Soloist; Sanders...