Word: conductors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most impressive, though, were all those guys and gals who came dressed as the Harvard Band. I mean, talk about originality! They had instruments, sheet music, a conductor, crimson jackets, the works! However, they really gave themselves away during the game; just sitting in the stands looking at the contest, making about as much music as Van Cliburn with his hands...
...first performance of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra draws raves, with special praise going to concertmaster Joseph Silverstein, first cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, and conductor Georg Solti. The one undergraduate in HRO, who asked to remain anonymous, said afterwards, "It was a great honor to play on a college orchestra of this quality...
WORKS BY SCHUBERT, MENDELSSOHN, BERLIOZ, TCHAIKOVSKY, DEBUSSY, RESPIGHI AND STRAUSS (Philadelphia Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini conducting; RCA, 5 LPs). The first complete release of a series of recordings made in 1941-42 finds the conductor producing spacious, clear-textured virtuoso performances...
...paralysis of his right arm. The pity was that it ended his performing career. Playing with Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich and his friend Tenor Peter Pears, with whom he shared a semi-manorial brick house in Aldeburgh, Britten was a deft, expressive accompanist at the piano. He was an exceptional conductor, not only of his own works but also of Bach, Purcell and Mozart. His graceful, impassioned version of Mozart's Symphony No. 40 in G minor, for example, is the best on records...
Equally convincing was the performance of the first four movements from Mozart's "Haffner" Serenade, K. 250. Again, Shumsky played a dual role as conductor and violin soloist. The work, Mozart's first great orchestral effort, retains both a light, chamber music coloration and a tendency toward a concertant style. (This style makes soloists operate in opposition to the orchestra...