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...impressed by his tone—he didn’t sound too uptight,” Y. Edo Paz ’05 said. “He succeeded in having a truly personal demeanor.... I was impressed that he was able to pull off the most impressive speech of the convention after the great speeches of [former president Bill] Clinton on Monday and [Illinois senatorial candidate Barack] Obama on Tuesday...
...most dramatic proof yet of Asia's rising musical sophistication came in late May, when the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra exhibited the region's newest high-profile cultural trophy: the Dutch conductor Edo de Waart, who will take over as artistic director in October. In a lavish press conference worthy of the debut of a new SUV line, on the 71st floor of Hong Kong's tallest skyscraper, De Waart led the orchestra in a short piece by John Adams. Then the intense, affable maestro spelled out his grandiose ambitions: De Waart, 63, one of the world's most accomplished...
What they've come to expect is a more expressive conducting style than that of his sometimes stern-faced predecessor, Dutchman Edo de Waart. Gelmetti's performance of Ravel's Bol?ro two years ago has already passed into Sydney folklore. Loose of hip, his stomach thrust forward, he seemed to coax Ravel's rhapsodic wave out of his shoulders. Seeing him perform the same piece with the Berlin Symphony Orchestra a year before, the newspaper Der Tagesspiegel went so far as to say, "Gelmetti conducts with his stomach." Whatever the case, his expansive enjoyment of the music is infectious...
...dance troupe appears throughout the movie as jiving peasants, providing a pulse of human percussion. The result is something like the Broadway show Stomp transplanted to Edo-era Japan. It's Kitano's way of embedding the dynamic heartbeat of the modern inside the body of the traditional?a hallmark of his recent work...
...caf? before a performance, dressed in a silk summer jacket and jeans accessorized with a Beastie Boys cap and an oversize black-skull ring, he explains his crossover appeal with a mischievous analogy: "The original Kabuki actors had a real punk attitude. It was the rock music of the Edo period...