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MUSIC | Boston Conservatory Orchestra...
...There wasn’t any form of music he didn’t like,” Valerie Epps recalled of her husband, who was also a trustee of the Boston Symphony Orchestra...
...Mendelssohn album made No. 1 on Amazon.com's "Movers and Shakers" list for the biggest leap in sales. Hearing Lang Lang on disc is gratifying, but you have to see him - even in the most fiendishly difficult passages he hardly even looks at the keyboard, his eyes searching out orchestra members to visibly join in the joy or pain of making music, or looking roof-wards as he rides the passion. "I always study the score carefully," says Lang Lang. "When I start to play, my mind remembers the theory, but my heart starts a journey. I straddle both...
...Daniel Harding, 28, England. Of all the musical professions, conductors tend to reach their peak in later years, after acquiring the life experience and authority to mine the deepest riches of an orchestra. None of which bothers Harding. "It is an older man's game," he concedes. "But the great conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler made his debut at 19, so there are exceptions!" Harding is making his own rules. As a young teenager in Oxford he would conduct groups of friends on weekends. Artistically ambitious, he decided to try a rare piece by Schönberg, but found...
...teacher - who mentioned it to Simon Rattle. Rattle was curious to meet the boy who wanted to conduct Schönberg, and invited him to a rehearsal with his City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. He even let him conduct a bit. Impressed by Harding's knowledge and his confidence, Rattle took Harding on as an assistant and began recommending the young man everywhere. Before long, Harding was plucked from university at 18 by Claudio Abbado, then chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic, who wanted Harding to assist him. He made his full debut with the Berliners at 21. Now living...