Word: orchestra
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nobody, that is, except thousands of waltz-happy PBS viewers. Rieu's concert videos, in which he and his 26-piece Johann Strauss Orchestra are seen playing for delirious throngs of European fans, have become a staple of public-TV pledge-drive programming. Last year The Vienna I Love came in right behind Riverdance in viewer popularity. The telecasts not only bring in money for local PBS affiliates, they also promote Rieu's CDs. When he visited the U.S. in August to work the phones at stations across the country, his on-camera appearances helped lift Vienna into Billboard...
...seems utterly unsurprised by his emergence as a musical matinee idol. "It's my personality," he says. "When I come onstage, the audience is in my hands. I'm feeling very well when I'm standing there in the lights, seeing the public and having fun with my orchestra. It's very nice playing violin for 20,000 people. They laugh, they cry, they give me flowers...
Currier House Committee Secretary; Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra; Mission Hill After School Program; HSFHA...
Radcliffe Union of Students, Co-President; Women in Science at Harvard-Radcliffe, Co-President; Biology Advisory Committee for Undergraduate Program, Student Advisor; Harvard Toscanini Chamber Orchestra; Ghungroo...
...neatly in folding chairs in front of Memorial Church. At first, I took little notice. In my past two years at Harvard, I have come to accept things like that as completely typical-you know, like those evenings when you walk into the dining hall and see a chamber orchestra and ten deans lined up in black tie to greet you for an "elegant meal," or those Saturdays when you roll out of bed and into the Square and slowly realize that there is a moonwalk the size of your dorm sitting in the middle of Mass...