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...sightreading of Brahms' Requiem; F. John Adams, conductor; Leverett...
...shaped her own attitudes toward conducting and music in general. She criticizes Adams sharply for directing his attention only toward the sound a voice produces rather than to the voice and the person who owns it. "Singers come out of his concerts hoarse." Adams is a "very talented conductor" and his concerts sound "spectacular," but during the year she was in Collegium he made no efforts to bind the group. Her own efforts as a conductor are directed toward creating a rapport with her cast and orchestra. "I enjoy the leading." If she had to act or sing on stage...
...Harvard Gilbert and Sullivan's spring production. Tom Fuller '74, an earnest tenor who has starred in four past Gilbert and Sullivan shows, is singing at one end of the room. Standing in front of him, next to a working piano, is Karen Krag '76, the music director and conductor for Princess Ida. Krag is singing along with Fuller, using a pencil as a baton, and swaying from side to side with the rhythm of the music. Her long, thick hair is plaited into two golden brown braids. Dark, almost black, eyebrows give character and distinction to regular features...
...distinction that particularly impresses her and only occasionally has it been called to her attention by anyone else. When she asked Michael Loo to be her concertmaster, a service he has performed for past Gilbert and Sullivan shows, he replied, "What happened? Did no one else want to be conductor?" but comments like his have been rare. Krag is not an Antonia Brico, either in her ambitions or disappointments. Talent and effort have paid off in her case and she is able to do with her music what she wants--enjoy it and the opportunity it affords to "work with...
...work is now a cliché of concert programming; 28 stereo versions are currently available. It seems likely that ragtime fell not to Stravinsky but to Georg Solti, who leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Solti (TIME cover, May 7, 1973) has quietly become the most popular conductor since Toscanini. A Solti appearance is sold out at once anywhere in the world. His records are all top sellers; the Mahler: Symphony No. 5, released in 1970, has made the charts ever since. Solti lives in a fury of industry and seems able to handle anything back to Bach with distinction...