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...Berklee College of Music's Concert Wind Ensemble gives A Tribute to John Corley. Corley, the conductor of the MIT Concert Band for 51 years, is retiring after this season. Also appearing is Ivana Lisak, who will perform Stravinsky's "Concerto for Piano and Winds." 8:15 p.m. Berklee Performance Center, 136 Mass. Ave., Boston, 747-2261, Tickets...
...fantastic chorus, probably the best in the country," said Jameson N. Marvin, senior lecturer on music and the group's conductor...
...Jameson Marvin is probably the most prominent acting conductor in the United States if not the world," said singer Quentin Chu '99. "Being able to sing under him is my privilege...
...comments on the back of the book jacket profess. For all of those sane, not-yet-obsessed opera fans, however, the book will take a little more effort. Although written in a relaxed, unpretentious style, the narrative is inundated with the names of every important performer, publicist, conductor and record company CEO in the business, not to mention the titles and allusions to plot synopses of most of the major operas. With the effort though, anyone who reads this will emerge from this book with a new appreciation for all of those "sublime sufferers and nuts...
Things began to look up after the Bach with the Boston premiere of composer-conductor Andre Previn's Sonata Vineyard, named so because it was composed just after Previn and his wife bought a home on Martha's Vineyard in 1994. The sonata is a turbulent, impassioned work that seems almost schizophrenic in its frenetic metric upheaval, alternation of fast and slow and its jagged leaping between notes, and thus the overly-vigorous attacks that seemed so out of place in Bach seem most appropriate here. The piece obviously requires the attentions of a virtuoso, and Shaham...