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...John Adams '66, the conductor of the Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus, has been named the now conductor of both the Harvard Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society...
Adams has studied with Nadia Boulanger, world-renowned French musician, and Frederick Prausnitz, former conductor of the New England Couservatory Orchestra...
Last summer at Tanglewood he was the chief rehearsal accompanist under Michael Thomas, assistant conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra...
What was on Beethoven's mind during those mundane moments when he was not working on the Ninth Symphony or the C Sharp Minor Quartet? Women, for one thing. The wife of a certain conductor, Beethoven once confided to a friend, had "a magnificent fanny from the side." Another concern in Beethoven's bachelor household was how to obtain writing paper, domestic help and food-fish, oysters and Hungarian wines were his special favorites-as cheaply as possible. That was important, since Beethoven was one of the greatest penny pinchers who ever lived. He was delighted to receive...
...people will restore the "Boston sound" which existed under Koussevitsky and even came through in the sometimes sloppy conducting of Munch. Then, for the first time in almost a decade, Boston won't have to lay claim to the dubious distinction of having Arthur Fiedler as its greatest resident conductor...