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Lawrence-King is an ideal person to introduce early music, as he has quite an impressive background. He won an Organ Scholarship to Cambridge and attended the London Early Music Center. He is the Baroque conductor and founder and director of two ensembles, has made solo recordings and was the recipient of two significant awards...
...official Cultural Ambassador of the Sydney, Australia 2000 Olympic Arts Festival. The November 13 performance at Symphony Hall was also a part of BankBoston's annual Celebrity Series. This year also marks the 10th anniversary of the orchestra's 1988 American debut in Carnegie Hall. Led by Dutch conductor Edo de Waart, the orchestra makes its first appearance since then as they tour 11 U.S. cities, performing the music of Beethoven, Richard Strauss and contemporary composer Graeme Koehne...
Although it is not easy for performers to capture Mahler's spirit in any of his compositions, his final pieces are especially challenging. Mahler's repertoire requires spiritual empathy as well as technical delicacy. A conductor must look at life and try to see what Mahler saw--a combination of fear, ennui and child-like wonder. Unsurprisingly, an exquisite performance of Mahler is moving--but rare. And so, when conductor Seiji Ozawa and the Boston Symphony Orchestra (B.S.O.) performed one of Mahler's final (and arguably, most perfect) pieces, the vocal accompanied Das Lied von der Erde (The Song...
...thrives under something rare in the classical music world--a long-reigning conductor. In his 26th year as music director, Seiji Ozawa is currently the world's longest serving conductor of any major orchestra. With Ozawa at its helm, the BSO attains a balance that might seem impossible for other contemporary symphonies--a balance between high sales in tickets and high quality in programming. The process of choosing a repertoire can be as political as it is musical, an inimical intersection between the vision of a governing board concerned with fund raising and a conductor concerned with musical integrity...
When it is time to clap, there is the delicate dance between the conductor or soloist and the audience. The trick is for the performer to leave the stage before the crowd loses its enthusiasm and stops clapping. That way it seems like the audience is asking the performer to please come back out and bow at least one more time while everyone is still inclined to put their hands together. This requires good timing and an excellent ear to judge the volume of the applause, two things every musician should have. How embarrassing it would be to come back...