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...asked, knowing I had not been very serious about musical involvement in college. I told him yes, and that I was loving it, happy to note that we are the oldest continually performing symphony orchestra in the country (est. 1808). Happy to tell him that our conductor, James Yannatos, studied with Bernstein and has been pegged for the assistant conductor position with the Boston Symphony. But happiest to tell him that we’re just really good. “Yeah, I bet there aren’t any slouches in that orchestra,” he said...
After months of playing both types of music, I realized it was a charade to go on with classical. During a teary and emotional contretemps with Antonia Brico, my piano teacher and the orchestra's conductor, I told her I was giving up piano classes and classical music altogether. It was big, because I'd been playing piano for 11 years then, and I loved classical music. "Little Judy, you've got it," she said, heartbroken, as she tried to change my mind. "You could be something." But I knew my future was in folk music...
...well against Park’s sonorous, elegant performance and soaring sounds. The ensemble, which was feathery and lacking in confidence, unfortunately was not up to the soloists’ level—probably because they had to deal with choreography in addition to their playing. Hats off to conductor Alexander S. Misono ’04 for his willingness to engage in artistic experimentation, but I breathed a sigh of relief as the stage lights dimmed and the music faded out as shakily as it came...
Overall, BachSoc exhibited a superior command of the classical genre, providing a delightful musical experience that deserves repetition. Congratulations to conductor Misono and concertmaster Goh for a truly solid program and a propitious season beginning...
This raises the question of these performers’ motivations. Summers didn’t put together this deplorable show on his own. Kuumba conductor Sheldon K.X. Reid ’96 agreed to be a part of it, as did countless other student wannabe artists whose presence in this piece of propaganda seriously put their artistic integrity in doubt...