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...businessmen hold up Mittal's success as an example of what Indian financial and managerial acumen can achieve, given the right global opportunities. Perhaps. But nobody asks this: Would Mittal have been as successful if he had remained in India? Why do so many of our success stories - from conductor Zubin Mehta to economist Amartya Sen to author Salman Rushdie - live abroad? Is there something about the Indian environment that discourages achievement? Whenever globally successful businessmen have come back home, they have failed to replicate their international record. Even the Mittals are far more successful abroad than they...
...think he as a conductor increasingly felt uncomfortable with his handicap,” Wolff said. “But it didn’t discourage him from making great music...
...left New Jersey for Massachusetts to become the third conductor of the Harvard Glee Club, a post he held until 1970. But even after he gave up the baton, Forbes maintained a quiet presence at Harvard music events...
...uptown Manhattan during rehearsals for Pan Asian Rep's Cambodia Agonistes, conductor and composer Jack Jarrett, 71, taps a key on his laptop to tweak the tempo for the dancers. Looking bohemian in a black turtleneck and wire-rimmed specs, Jarrett's doing his musical director thing. Back home in Greensboro, N.C., he's got another job--as vice president of R&D for software start-up VirtuosoWorks...
...West Side Story” composer Leonard Bernstein ’39. As part of the course, to be taught this spring jointly by Watts Professor of Music Kay K. Shelemay and Mason Professor of Music Carol J. Oja, students will interview people who knew the world-renowned conductor and composer. “There have been a number of Berstein biographies,” Oja explained. “Each biography, of course, covers the whole of his life, but the depth of information about the early years is not huge.” Bernstein’s works...