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...Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra will get its first new leader in 45 years on July 1, the Office for the Arts and Harvard’s Music Department announced last week. Federico Cortese—now leader of the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra and the New England String Ensemble—will replace James Yannatos, who first joined the HRO in 1964. An eight-member conductor search committee composed of students, faculty, and other stakeholders appointed Cortese to the post from a field of nearly 200 applicants. “The voices of the students in the orchestra were paramount...
...Although his appointment as superintendent was met with controversy when the School Committee passed over Deputy Superintendent Carolyn L. Turk—a black woman and longtime leader in the district—for the position, Young will likely enjoy an early honeymoon, with even some of Turk’s backers expecting tremendous results from...
Across Central Asia, they are a common sight: portraits glorifying each nation's leader. Rising above the people on roadside billboards and taking pride of place on the walls of local government offices, visual tributes to the region's sitting presidents outnumber internet cafes, independent newspapers and working bank machines. But Tajikistan President Emomali Rakhmon aims to change all that. He has issued a decree that all portraits depicting him with local politicians are to be torn down immediately...
...what the government is touting as an effort to tackle the obsession with celebrity, some observers say could simply be the president's way of keeping local leaders from trying to up their status by basking in his reflected glory. Rakhmon, a former cotton farm boss whose prezident.tj website features nearly a dozen pictures of him on the homepage alone, led pro-communist forces against Islamist rebels during Tajikistan's civil war in the 1990s and became leader of the nation in 1992, a year after independence. The nation's longest-serving president, Rakhmon continues to command popular support, despite...
...Although images of Rakhmon pictured alone will stay put, crews taking down images of local politicians standing or sitting next to the leader have their work cut out for them, with hundreds of enormous billboards casting shadows over roadways and blanketing buildings across the country. They might soon wish that all they had to do was pull down a rotating golden statue...