Word: conductors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nevertheless it did emerge that David Evitts and Gregory Shatten were the vocal and piano soloists for an extremely conservative program of Bach and Handel. The choice of works, by conductor Robert Baker, were in line with the Bach Society's year-long emphasis on music from the Bach-Haydn-Mozart axis, rarely exploring material before or after...
...sense of ensemble displayed throughout the work was extraordinary to hear. Complex rhythmic changes were handled to hear. Complex rhythmic changes were handled with a sureness that evades most choral groups. The choir's conductor, John Ferris, produced a fine sweep of phrase. Entrances were always sure, from the very first Amen of the Deus in adjutorium...
Still, the real show may be behind the scenes. Any performance of Les Troyens is a miracle of calibration. In the pit, Conductor Rafael Kubelik uses everything but radar to maintain contact with seven assistant conductors. They are backstage with walkie-talkies to communicate with each other as they herd bands and choruses around the platforms, often walking in the opposite direction from the motion of the turntable. When film sequences start to roll, Kubelik's tempos must not vary by more than four seconds from performance to performance...
Hurok settled in Philadelphia, where he sold pots and pans, bundled newspapers, lost a job as a streetcar conductor because he could not pronounce the street names. He began going to concerts there, and liked them so much that when he moved to Brooklyn he decided to stage a few of his own. By 1915 he was regularly presenting such performers as Mischa Elman, Titta Ruffo and Alma Gluck in low-priced concerts at the old New York Hippodrome...
...protected," says Jack Clayton in a burst of romanticism. This is not strictly true. In her Hollywood days, Mia ground out TV's Peyton Place until she briefly became Frank Sinatra's wife. She almost became a major star in Rosemary's Baby. But after marrying Conductor Andre Previn, she opted for domestic life in England with the couple's twin sons and their adopted Vietnamese daughter. Quiet, sparrow-thin and doe-eyed, Mia hardly seems a candidate to play Fitzgerald's teasing, haughty heroine. Yet in Theoni Aldredge's exquisite period costumes...