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Rumbles and Shouts. A special challenge to a commuting student is tardiness: two would-be scholars found that the classroom had left before they got to the station. Still, New York commuters are famous for adaptability, and the 23 who did make it were no exceptions. Not the conductor, the blur of passing towns, sexy billboard advertisements or occasional stops seemed to bother anyone. Professor Desmond Reilly, a moonlighting advertising manager from the Olin Corp., stood in the center of the car. He made himself heard clearly over the rumble of the wheels by using a microphone; microphones are about...
Harvard has a long tradition of good singing under the legendary Doc Davison, and Elliot Forbes. Current conductor F. John Adams has scheduled an ambitious start for the Collegium; their first concert is of works from Byrd and Bach to Brahms and Debussy. In the spring they will join the Boston Symphony for one of the new Spectrum Concerts: religious music of Bach, Del Tredici, Josquin, and Messiaen. Adams has also planned an informal chanson and madrigal session on the banks of the Charles...
...year of looking for a successor to the late George Szell, who died in July 1970 at 73, the Cleveland Orchestra last week chose 41-year-old Lorin Maazel. Endowed with stamina, sensitivity and intelligence, Maazel is a former child prodigy who at the age of eleven was guest conductor of Toscanini's NBC Symphony. One day, when he showed up to rehearse the NBC, he found all 100 or so musicians sucking lollipops. That might have finished any other child right then and there. Not Maazel. "I was a pretty tough kid," he recalls...
...CONDUCTS. I am trained as a composer, not as a conductor. For me composing is still the nucleus of everything. When I study another composer's score, or when I prepare one of my own for performance, what I read, I want to hear. I conduct because I thought that if I wanted to change something in the musical life, then I would have to be really serious about it. If you conduct a concert only once a year, then you don't change anything...
With President Nixon in attendance, Conductor Antal Dorati and the National Symphony Orchestra went through a program of Beethoven, Mozart, Stravinsky and William Schuman that filled the center's concert hall with rich, vibrant and joyously reverberant highs, lows and middles. The opera house's acoustical turn came on Friday, with the premiere of Beatrix Cenci by Argentinian Master Alberto Ginastera. It was produced by the Opera Society of Washington. Brutal and bloody, the work runs a full gamut of orchestral and vocal sound. It proved beyond doubt that the opera house is one of the best-sounding...