Word: hro
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
It’s not just HRO, of course—other classical groups have similar difficulty getting to them...
...start with HRO in 1964, when the student members of the orchestra elected him out of a lineup of six short-list candidates, all of whom had conducted for them in a role-reversal audition process. The faculty ratified the selection, and Yannatos has been teaching classes in the music department ever since...
...wasn’t always such a struggle to stir up interest, according to HRO conductor James Yannatos, who has been leading then orchestra for 41 years. His musicians lovingly call...
Special guests help, HRO members say, and partly for this reason, last Friday’s concert featured two rather high-profile female vocalists to accompany the orchestra. For the second piece of the night, Yannatos took the podium and conducted Blauvelt’s “Pishi,” a melancholy number with Paula Murrihy, an Irish mezzo-soprano and a recent graduate of the New England Conservatory. The piece, sung in Russian, began with an ominously dissonant moan from the orchestra, which swelled to climax as Murrihy sang her despondent first lines...
...Bach-Soc started about ten years before I came in, and part of it was because there were a lot of HRO kids who weren’t happy,” he says. “The kids took it upon themselves to organize this smaller orchestra, and then the Mozart Society happened when some kids came to me who did not make HRO, didn’t want to play in the Bach-Soc, and wanted to be in an orchestra...