Word: conductors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...best pianist in the under-30 group, he is certainly one of the busiest and most versatile men in music history. He gives 200 concerts a year on five continents. In London he is moving into television. He is getting busier and busier as a conductor, too, in the international style in which he does everything. When friends urge him to slow down, he reminds them of what the late Sir John Barbirolli once said: "When you're young you should have an excess of everything. If you haven't excess, what are you going to pare...
...have induced any reasonable audience to stay past intermission. The male chorus in competent in the opening scene, but only exemplary insofar as it drowns out the orchestra. Sully Bonn as Ruth has exactly the right singing voice for the part, but, alas, her acting is lackluster, and the conductor has made her opening song into an almost endless and boring dirge. Ronald Remy, as Frederic, is also the perfect singer for the role, but he can't act to save his life...
Fenno Heath, president of the Yale Glee Club, said that after this issue was settled, the Harvard Glee Club conductor then refused to let them sing "Fair Harvard" at the end of the concert. Instead of both clubs singing both alma maters, Harvard vacated the stage leaving Yale to sing alone. In protest, the Yale men and women sang their alma mater arm-in-arm. The Harvard club then returned to stage and mimicked the Yale club, with an all-male version of the same stunt...
...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...