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...three plays, originally produced in April 2006 to commemorate what would have been Beckett’s 100th birthday, were part of the inaugural series for the New College Theatre. Robert Scanlan, a professor of theater who knew Beckett personally, directed the plays, and Martin Pearlman, founder and conductor of the Boston Baroque, composed the music. All of Beckett’s plays—including the three on stage last night, “Words and Music,” “Cascando,” and “...but the clouds...
...When it was very new, it was very exciting," Martin says. "When you're first starting out, you're amazed that something gets a laugh. When you're a success, you know something's gonna get a laugh, it's just how big. You become like a conductor." But soon the audience seized the baton. Fans who knew his routines from the LPs would call out punch lines. He felt as if he were doing his greatest hits. So he retired to movies: more comfortable, less daunting...
...organ was built in 1967 by a Harvard physicist. The pipes, of varying sizes, resemble faces with elongated foreheads and tiny rectangular mouths. Gold metalwork laces the perimeters, and a small mirror propped at an angle allows the organist to see the conductor behind...
...after students selected him out of six candidates. The man who has nurtured several generations of Harvard musicians says the orchestra was in bad shape organizationally and financially when he first arrived.“There was no permanent position [of music director],” says Yannatos. Conductors of the group quickly came and went. At one point, the concertmaster of the Boston Symphony Orchestra moonlighted as the conductor of the HRO for a few concerts, according to Yannatos.The Harvard University Orchestra had begun playing concerts with the Radcliffe Orchestra in the 1936, and the two groups were merged...
...entire man. All the same, while people will come away impressed by Turner the painter of historic events and modern horrors, one as forceful and sometimes as original as Goya, the man they'll be in awe of is still that other Turner, the incandescent bulb, the great conductor of solar power...