Word: maestro
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...concert featured two of the classical music industry's most famous figures, conductor/composer John Williams and flutist James Galway. Maestro Williams is most widely known for his 75 film scores, including Schindler's List, Jurassic Park, the three Indiana Jones films, E.T., Superman, the Star Wars trilogy and, most recently, Rosewood. For these and others, Williams has accrued five Oscars, one British Academy Award and 16 Grammys. He has also composed many concert pieces, including several concertos, most recently a trumpet concerto commissioned by the Cleveland Orchestra. Boston audiences are most familiar with Williams as the conductor of the Boston...
...reading of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto featured the prodigy violinist Sarah Chang, 16, who cluelessly bowled her way through the war-horse, leaving Slatkin and the orchestra to catch up as best they could. The Brahms Fourth Symphony was better, benefiting from the sturdy, muscular interpretation that the new maestro favors, but it still lacked the refinement that marks the playing of a truly great orchestra. Slatkin is aware of the challenges: taking advantage of both attrition and friendly persuasion, he has already named five new principals, with more changes on the way. "In a couple of years," he says...
...might appear that the great symphonic works would lift the spirit profoundly as well, but symphonic organizations have not been as successful in refreshing their audiences. Deborah Borda, executive director of the New York Philharmonic, is lucky to have as maestro Kurt Masur, who works tirelessly to pull in kids and young people. He is backed up by flexible formats, moderate prices and gimmicks like rush-hour concerts. But, Borda says, sighing: "we don't have wigs and makeup onstage, nor the emergence of such megastars as Pavarotti. People of that nature really broke down barriers and created accessibility...
...been known to moon on the runway, and his collection featuring the infamous bumster, jeans designed to bare the bottom, caused a sensation. In his latest London outing, he sank his catwalk under a few inches of water. The models maneuvered well, but when he took his bow, the maestro looked like a cat on a hot tinny puddle...
...record shelves, and that may explain why so many of them mix music into their act. Foxworthy, whose "You might be a redneck" routine long ago outlived its usefulness, shows a flair for country stylings in his new comedy-plus-music album, Crank It Up. And Yankovic, maestro of the rock parody, is in fine form in Bad Hair Day, which includes a nifty parody of Coolio's Gangsta's Paradise--called Amish Paradise...