Word: conductors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...name of one composer was on everybody's lips last week in Berlin. So were words like Wunderkind. After all, hadn't he matured faster than Mozart? It was said that his talents as pianist and conductor were beyond those of any of his contemporaries. On top of all that, he was evidently a likable, unpretentious man of the world, gifted in languages, poetry and science, a fit partner for any woman on the dance floor, and any man's match in the billiard room. Who was the man? Why, Jacob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy...
SANDERS THEATER: Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, James Yannatos, conductor, and Phyllis Curtin, soprano, Sat., 8:30 p.m., reserved sents...
Instead, the auditorium was the site of an experimental classical program that took a scary though not entirely unrealistic look at the future of symphonic concertgoing. The performers were 34 string, wind, brass and percussion players, banded-and wired-together as the Electric Symphony Orchestra. The conductor was Daniell Revenaugh, 38, who believes among other things that the way to reach today's young audience is to overpower them, rock style, with sound. Says Revenaugh: "A high school girl in her bedroom can create more sound than a symphony orchestra." Not any more. The Electric Symphony was loud enough...
...loudspeakers. The effect was sometimes as intense and attention-riveting as listening to records through earphones; too often it was more a nightmarish stew of French horns sounding like tubas, trumpets like cornets, strings like wood saws. It did not help, of course, that Revenaugh had to surrender the conductor's usual command over tone and blending to the man at the sound console...
...seems to be playing Bach just a little out of tune--sets the mood, and then things really get underway with the Moritat, better known as "Mack the Knife." If you have only heard Mantovani versions, you can have no idea what bite this song has. Stephen Schmidt, the conductor, puts it across beautifully, although the band has an occasional ragged moment later...