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...total, almost wrap around the stage, expanding outward from a moat-like pit that encircles the thrust. At one point, this cavity did contain water (it was a river in a production of Dead End), but now it alternates between simply being added to the stage and concealing an orchestra...
With a flick of the baton, the Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra (HRO) is under his command. But when he first came to Harvard, James Yannatos didn’t expect to stay here. After growing up listening to the Metropolitan Opera at the behest of his father, James Yannatos came to Harvard in 1964, expecting it to be a stepping-stone. “I thought, well, this would be a very nice parenthesis in my professional life. I had no idea I would still be here. The seductive thing was just the combination of working with students and making music...
Harvard gives Yannatos a unique advantage over most other composers: the perfect test ground. “By writing a piece and then having an orchestra immediately to work on it and perform, you begin to see things that work, things that don’t work or that are difficult,” he says. “The business of composing is more to me an uncovering. It’s a discovering, first, but an uncovering...
Such is "the Italian sunshine" that De Waart hoped Gelmetti would bring to the technically assured SSO. With his arrival at the orchestra, Rome would seem to come to Sydney, as the Verdi Requiem marketing goes. "He was born in Rome" - to a businessman father and poetess mother - "and he's deeply Roman," Gelmetti's Rome Opera concertmaster Vicenzo Bolognese has said. "Romans can keep the right distance with power - a true Roman can act politically without becoming too involved." As chief conductor since April 2000, Gelmetti has helped revive that city's ailing Opera House, as well...
...with the SSO's architecture. Building from the foundations up, he'd like to hold master classes - as he does each summer at Siena's Accademia Chigiana - with young Australian conductors, to fill the ranks left by expat stars Simone Young and Sir Charles Mackerras. "We have a fantastic orchestra, fantastic soloists, good composers - why we have not conductors?" he asks with a rhetorical flourish...