Word: conductors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...streetcar conductor in Lewiston, Longley is the model of the self-made man, the kind of person who jogs a mile every morning, needs only three hours of sleep a night, and avows that Ayn Rand is his favorite author. A fervent believer in the virtues of hard work, Longley as a youth labored in a textile mill to support his widowed mother and five sisters and brothers. After graduating from Bowdoin College, he went on to build one of the biggest insurance agencies in the state...
...pupil of Ivan Galamian, and Myung-Wha was a pupil of first Leonard Rose and then Gregor Piatigorsky. Myung-Whun was attracted by the more personal, less competitive atmosphere of the smaller Marines College of Music and apprenticed himself to Pianist Nadia Reisenberg and recently also to Conductor Carl Bamberger...
...least rehearsal time, and it showed. The necessity of placing it last on the program--when the players would be most tired--introduced further complications, yet the occasional ensemble problems, rushed tempi and brass bloopers only partially detracted from the pleasure of hearing this symphony performed live, with conductor James Yannatos' energetic tempi and the big, full sound that the HRO can always muster...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, James Yannatos, Conductor; with Maureen Forrester, contralto. Beethoven: Symphony No. 5, Ives: Three Places in New England, Mahler: Songs of a Wayfarer, Mozart: Non Piu di Flore. Nov. 8 at 8:30. Admission...
Great Performances--Music. Herbert von Karajan, acclaimed "the most powerful musician in Europe," conducts the Berlin Philharmonic in a performance of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. Von Karajan was the conductor for Deutsche Grammophone's famous collection of Beethoven's symphonies. Ch. 2, 9 p.m., 1 hour...