Word: conductors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Japanese call the visitors. The ticket holders sat still and intent during the opera. Not a late straggler nor a cough marred the concentration. The company had just finished its annual spring tour of the U.S., which featured Traviata, and so the production was in crisp form. Conductor Richard Bonynge slowed up now and then for the singers' benefit, but the orchestra, playing with precision and rich texture, expressed most of the considerable drama in Verdi's score...
Died. Leroy Anderson, 66, pop composer-conductor; of lung cancer; in Woodbury, Conn. Anderson launched what became a long career in Tin Pan Alley with Sleigh Ride, in 1947, an instantly popular orchestral piece that established his relentlessly bouncy style. His 1952 Blue Tango, featuring 50 violins, became the first instrumental to top the record charts...
...surrogate parents in the U.S. They are Mrs. Saunder and Howard Oilman, board chairman of the Oilman Paper Co. A major patron of music and dance, Oilman has lent Baryshnikov a New York penthouse rent-free. Saunder and Oilman have introduced him to musicians like Cellist Mstislav Rostropovitch and Conductor Leonard Bernstein. Baryshnikov has plunged eagerly into an investigation of American culture. He spends his spare time at plays, operas and especially movies. He is a considerable student of television, whether afternoon cartoons or old movies on the late show (he has worked up imitations of Humphrey Bogart...
Trial by Jury, and scenes from Ruddigore, Yeomen of the Guard, and Princess Ida: Cathy Gratto, director, Gerald Moshell, conductor; Kirkland...
...Conductor Hugh Wolff '75 impressively handled the difficult off-beat rhythms in the Stravinsky work, and continued his authoritative and precise leadership in his direction of the premiere of John Thow's Astraeus. Thow is a graduate students in music at Harvard and completed this demanding work for Saturday's concert. It relies heavily on percussive effects--which begin before the conductor even walks on stage--and which the strings and woodwinds amplify. At times they overpowered the melodic line, perhaps because of acoustics in Sanders Theatre or weaknesses in certain sections of the orchestra. But Wolff deftly managed...