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...lost to Pancho Gonzales on the tennis court. He has fumbled handoffs as a training-camp quarterback for the Detroit Lions and missed baskets while working out as a forward for the Boston Celtics... He toured with the New York Philharmonic as a percussionist?and was severely chastised by conductor Leonard Bernstein... among other things [Plimpton] is editor of the Paris Review, a fine literary quarterly ... Says Polish-born novelist Jerzy Kosinski: ... 'He comes closest to the American conception of what a writer ought to be?that he should not just live off the imagination, like Proust, but should...
Recognized worldwide for its musicianship, this student ensemble visits Cambridge with a full orchestra. With visiting conductor Federico Cortese, who recently conducted both the Scottish Symphony and the Slovenian Philharmonic, the program of Mozart should be nothing short of extraordinary. 8 p.m. $5 students, $12 adults. Sanders Theatre...
...also highlighted his passion for music. He not only sang with the Glee Club as a student at the Divinity School, but he also later served as its assistant director. While he was assistant senior tutor of Leverett House, he regularly helped put on operas. He was occasionally guest conductor of the Harvard Band during football halftime shows...
...Daniel Harding, 28, England. Of all the musical professions, conductors tend to reach their peak in later years, after acquiring the life experience and authority to mine the deepest riches of an orchestra. None of which bothers Harding. "It is an older man's game," he concedes. "But the great conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler made his debut at 19, so there are exceptions!" Harding is making his own rules. As a young teenager in Oxford he would conduct groups of friends on weekends. Artistically ambitious, he decided to try a rare piece by Schönberg, but found...
...City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. He even let him conduct a bit. Impressed by Harding's knowledge and his confidence, Rattle took Harding on as an assistant and began recommending the young man everywhere. Before long, Harding was plucked from university at 18 by Claudio Abbado, then chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic, who wanted Harding to assist him. He made his full debut with the Berliners at 21. Now living in France, Harding is about to lead his second band, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. The key to avoiding crippling nerves, he says, is never to allow them through...