Word: conductors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bach program; The Cantata Singers, Phillip Kelsey, conductor; Sanders...
...open choral sight-reading of Requiems by Mozart and Faure. F. John Adams, conductor, Leverett...
Bach Brandenburg Concerto #3, Stravinsky, Puicinella Suite, Astrous, a new work by John Thow, and Beethoven's Triple Concerto; Bach Society Orchestra, Hugh Wolff, conductor, Richard Kogan, piano, Lynn Chang, violin, and Yo-Yo Ma, cello; Sanders...
...playing second fiddle in Britain's Conservative Party these days, but former Prime Minister Edward Heath still calls the tune occasionally. Heath, who was ousted as head of the Conservatives in February, made his continental debut as a symphony conductor last week before sellout audiences in Bonn and Cologne. At the invitation of Maestro André Previn, Heath led the London Symphony Orchestra through a 15-minute performance of Elgar's Cockaigne overture while West German TV cameras recorded the event. "Scintillating," applauded Bonn's General-Anzeiger. "Heath probably took Richard...
Strauss's advice that economy of gesture can be more effective than the manners of the grand dompteur," praised Die Welt. Heath, who won an organ scholarship at Oxford in the 1930s, had a ready explanation for his greater success as conductor than Conservative Party leader. "The orchestra has 120 musicians," he observed, "and Conservatives in the House of Commons number...