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Though their voices are occasionally overpowered by the orchestra, which might have benefited from a few more rehearsals, the strong collection of voices makes for an impressive show with a few twists on the familiar story. In this production of “La Cenerentola,” there are no pumpkin stagecoaches, no fairy godmothers and no omnipotent wands. But the DHO cast and crew work more than enough of their own magic to transmogrify the banal into the beautiful. Both Prince and Cinderella find love and beauty in the unlikeliest of places...
...shaky math skills, something that she attributes in large part to the limited curriculum of her high schools, meant that she spent most of her first year catching up. Frustrated with academics, Spence threw herself into her extracurricular activities—rowing, playing viola in the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra and writing a column in an English newspaper contrasting college life in Britain and the U.S. Spence says one of her favorite aspects of Harvard is the focus on extracurriculars, a major difference from British universities where college is simply a stepping stone towards employment...
...first concert. All I had heard before this point in my native Bombay was our local, semiprofessional orchestra or records, and records in the early 1950s didn't have the sound we are used to today...
...sofa in the living room and sometimes get up and conduct in my own way. I never had a baton. I had no idea what I was doing, but I was conducting. I had wanted to be a conductor since I started helping my father with his orchestra. When he was preparing at home for rehearsals, I would conduct and he would play the violin part...
...highlight for me, when I was music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, was my first concert with the orchestra in Bombay, in 1967, when I went back home for the first time. It had been 13 years. After the rambunctious welcome, I went alone for a walk on the streets where I grew up, and I felt as if I had never left. --As told to Barbara Isenberg