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...swap tools throughout the show. The band was tasked with bringing to life an eclectic mix of instruments and samples buried in the album tracks, including snippets Parton had taken from charity shop cassettes and old documentaries and borrowed string parts "because I didn't have access to an orchestra." The production is deliberately dirty. "Hopefully, it sounds spontaneous, as if it's just been knocked together," says Parton, "but in reality, it was painstaking, over months." Missed by much of the mainstream press on release, a few small reviews - and electrifying festival sets rapturously described by bloggers - sent music...
...plan to narrate the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra’s October 29 performance of Aaron Copland’s “Lincoln Portrait”—but according to members of the symphonic group, Summers’ withdrawal from the event came too late for the orchestra to edit its season brochures, which cost about $900 to print. Current and past board members of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra (HRO) said that over the summer, Summers told the group that he would narrate the tribute to Lincoln, which was written by Copland in 1942. The group had previously...
Such anecdotes abound. As the president of the Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra (HRO), Jimmy faces a crowd of more than 100 twice a week. He organizes, coordinates, plans concerts and competitions, and addresses the concerns of individual members. He seems never to lose his ground...
...week, no sweat,” Jimmy says. The communication skills that he developed during his year off have also come in handy at HRO. “Not that I’m imposing Scientology on anyone there, but what I use as my tools for running the orchestra is very much based on what I’ve learned from Scientology...
...electronic synthesizer that bears [Moog's] name?a 4-ft.[1.25-m]-long contraption that looks like the control panel of a jet airliner with an organ keyboard grafted onto it?is by far the most effective device yet developed to produce electronic sounds. Besides serving as an 'orchestra' for works by avant-garde composers, the Moog (rhymes with vogue) produced the bing-bong theme that for years preceded all CBS-TV color shows ... Composer John Eaton says of Moog: 'He has brought electronic music out of the lab and into our lives.' The basic elements of Moog's machine...