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...process by which Beverly Taylor was replaced by Jameson Marvin as conductor of the Radcliffe Choral Society was presented in a May article in The Crimson ("Taylor Is Replaced as Choral Director," news story, May 24, 1995) as if all parties concerned were simply delighted by the situation. In fact, the process was troubling and painful to many of Beverly's admirers, who will be left deeply saddened by her departure. As a result of the change, Harvard will lose a brilliant conductor and exemplary human being. At the most recent concert of the HRC, the spontaneous outpouring of support...
Beverly Taylor arrived at Harvard/Radcliffe as Associate Director of Choral Activities in the fall of 1978; her hiring coincided with that of Jameson Marvin, who was named Director. Responsibility for each of the Holden choruses would rest with one conductor; Bev was assigned to RCS, while Marvin was to lead the Harvard/Radcliffe Collegium Musicum and Harvard Glee Club. In addition to her duties with RCS, Bev established HRC, a now-thriving chorus of 200 voices drawn from Harvard and the larger community, which brings student musicians into contact with more experienced performers...
This did not consider the opinion of those students who favored Bev's conducting style. Why the plan did not consist of affording all three choruses the benefit of both conductors' expertise remains unclear; however, a large number of concerned students, alumni and music professionals held the opinion that the choral program at Harvard/Radcliffe would be considerably weakened by the loss of a senior conductor...
...aesthetic sense with which the singer-artist interprets music becomes refined under the influence of more than one conductor. The facility with which the singer-athlete masters vocal mechanics varies by coaching method. The understanding of the singer-student is enhanced by exposure to more than one musical viewpoint...
...dealings with Beijing lack strategic vision. They also contend that public hectoring and flip-flops over human rights, nuclear nonproliferation and now Taiwan have created dissonance in China policy: a U.S. trade official talks of "an orchestra in which each player plays his own music, and there is no conductor." Cautions Burton Levin, director of the Asia Society in Hong Kong: "If the U.S. harangues, it strengthens the hands of the xenophobes in China and weakens those forces that want to move toward a less authoritarian society. The U.S. can't improve China's values by stamping its feet." That...