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...enjoys social outings, and also works for a good cause, working with youth musicians and donating CD and concert proceeds to charity. Throughout the school year, the Society brings famed pianists to Harvard to critique the performances being polished for concert, and this year’s visits included Maestro Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Maestro Robert Spano from the Atlanta Symphony...
...writer and seventh rewrite. Perhaps more significantly, after the grandeur of Elizabeth and the scale of The Four Feathers, Water is budgeted at a slim $20 million-despite an all-star team that includes writer Andrew Niccol (The Truman Show), designer John Myhre (Chicago) and, for the score, Bollywood maestro A.R. Rahman and Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics. "The same film in Hollywood would cost $100 million," says Kapur. "But here it isn't corporate. Here I can keep control...
...Office of the Arts (OFA)’s Learning From Performers series continues with the visit of Maestro Leonard Slatkin, Music Director of the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C. This event is one of many intimate events put together by the OFA this semester in a series whose other guests will include turntablist DJ Spooky and playwright Tony Kushner. Slatkin has enjoyed abundant critical praise in the last two decades as a premiere conductor, with successful tenures at both the St. Louis Symphony and the BBC Symphony Orchestra. He has been with the National Symphony Orchestra for nine...
...Teatro alla Scala's sparkling inauguration in Milan on Dec. 7 was a triumphant return to form. Italy's bel mondo turned out to see maestro Riccardo Muti conduct Italian composer Antonio Salieri's Europa Riconosciuta (Europa Revealed)?which hadn't been performed since its original production for La Scala's inauguration in 1778. If you didn't manage to snag a $2,650 super-prima ticket, there are repeat performances until mid-January...
DIED. RENATA TEBALDI, 82, Italian soprano whose rich, lyrically expressive tones prompted the demanding maestro Arturo Toscanini to call hers "the voice of an angel"; at her home in San Marino, a republic surrounded by central Italy. Adored from Milan's La Scala to New York's Metropolitan Opera, she once drew so many curtain calls at the Met that she finally had to appear onstage with her coat...