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With a flick of the baton, the Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra (HRO) is under his command. But when he first came to Harvard, James Yannatos didn’t expect to stay here. After growing up listening to the Metropolitan Opera at the behest of his father, James Yannatos came to Harvard in 1964, expecting it to be a stepping-stone. “I thought, well, this would be a very nice parenthesis in my professional life. I had no idea I would still be here. The seductive thing was just the combination of working with students and making music...
...success of any musical piece. In order to find that progression, Yannatos tries to extrapolate the human elements of music. He tries to give music “a human face.” Yannatos’s uncovering of music has been greatly affected by his accents in HRO as well as the students in his classes. “Being in the university, there are these very bright and talented people who do a variety of things. That is in many ways awesome,” he says...
...Yannatos’s most ambitious composing endeavors, his Trinity Mass, which won the Artists Foundation Award in 1988, premiered with the HRO and Harvard choral groups just two years previous. In many ways, he is tied inextricably to the success of his students, strengthening his sensitivity to the way his music flows from paper to performance...
...admissions committee, Yannatos is able to preview the music of prospective students giving him a role not unlike that of an athletic coach in the selection of admitted students. Yannatos also spends an inordinate amount of time at the beginning of each year to select the newest members of HRO. “He always likes to listen to people individually,” says Stephanie R. Hurder...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Veritones receive no funding from the University, said Kathie S. Koo ’04, president of the group. The conductor of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra (HRO) is paid partly by the OFA, but the group is otherwise independently funded, said HRO President Ethan L. Gray...