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...teaches at Brandies, plays in the orchestra, and acts as the performers' spokesman. He has a deep enthusiasm for the orchestra and the innovations it is attempting. "It is an opportunity for people like myself to get together and perform, to choose our own programs, and choose our own conductor" he says. "We certainly don't make our living performing with the Boston Philharmonia...
...Even though the orchestra is made up of men who make their livings at other jobs-including the permanent conductor, Harvard Professor Leon Kirchner-they do not skimp on rehearsal time. "We do not go into any concert unrehearsed," says Goldman. This is true no matter how long it takes to learn a piece, and rehearsal costs can take up a good chunk of the budget. Without the pressure of thrice weekly concerts, the Philharmonia can take a more leisurely approach to music...
Last November at the Harvard-Yale game, a voice came over the public address system: "James Walker, will you please report to the press box." Walker, then conductor of the Harvard Band, soon found that the Band's half time show had been censored...
...band is an organization that has long thrived on sexist humor," said John Posner '71, student conductor. "What's happened here is that a lot of guys finally sat down to take a close look at the situation, chose to suppress the male chauvinist sentiments that bandies still fell, and did what was right...
Married. Andre Previn, 41, principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra; and Mia Farrow, 25, pixyish actress (John and Mary), former wife of Frank Sinatra and mother of six-month-old twins fathered by Previn; he for the third time; she for the second; in a Unitarian ceremony in London...