Word: conductors
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Alan T. Gilbert ’89, the chief conductor of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, will be the new music director of New York Philharmonic beginning in September 2009, the organization announced Tuesday...
Gilbert was also the music director and Conductor of the Bach Society Orchestra (BachSoc) during his senior year. Each season, an undergraduate leads BachSoc, selecting the repertoire, organizing practices, and conducting performances...
Gilbert was also the assistant conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra. In May, he stepped down as music director of the Santa Fe Opera, and, next season, he’ll end his tenure with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, a post he has occupied since...
...witty, combative - and a habit of playing competing media organizations off against each other quickly earned him enemies in the press corps. He diverted bolts of anger away from an unscathed Blair, but smelled increasingly of sulfur. "It's the job of a press secretary to be a lightning conductor," says Sir Christopher Meyer, who headed Downing Street press operations under Major and later served as Britain's ambassador to Washington from 1997-2003, a time when Campbell and his boss were frequent White House visitors. Campbell is a kind of Zelig, without the character's self-effacement, present...
...generous with his performance footage; operas, symphonies, concertos, chamber works tumble forth, giving us a sense of the composer's fecundity, tireless ambition and quite modern need to make a living when the traditional patronage system was beginning to falter. "Genius leaks out the around the edges," says the conductor Roger Norrington, "while he's doing something totally practical." In other words there is a serenity, a wit, an economy in this work that belies the haste and occasional desperation of its composition...