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...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...
DIED. GROVER MITCHELL, 73, leader of the Count Basie Orchestra; of cancer; in New York City. Mitchell, who played trombone for Basie for a dozen years, became the band's leader in 1995, the third person to take over the group following Basie's death in 1984. Under Mitchell's direction, the band won two Grammys and found new fans...
...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...
SUMMER SCHOOL CHORUS CONCERT. The 110-member Harvard Summer School Chorus presents choral masterworks accompanied by a professional orchestra and soloists. Under the direction of Constance DeFotis, the chorus will perform Mozart’s Mass in C-Minor and Schubert’s Mass in B-Flat Major. Friday, August 1 at 8 p.m. Free; limit 2 tickets per person. Available through the Harvard Box Office. Sanders Theatre...
...created an original art form." Indeed, the synchronized signing in the chorus numbers becomes a striking, original form of choreography, and the use of multiple actors in some parts gives the show a stylized universality. Near the end of one song, Waitin' for the Light to Shine, the orchestra suddenly stops for a few bars as the actors continue signing--a jab of silence that gives the hearing audience a chilling frisson in a rare show that can truly be called groundbreaking. --By Richard Zoglin. Reported by Molly Worthen