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...besides working on a memoir, Bernstein is now finishing a string quartet and "toying" with a concerto for an Ondes Martenot, an electrically driven French keyboard instrument, and another for piano and orchestra that harks back to his early days as a concert pianist...
...quiet confidence and easygoing physicality. The younger of two brothers, Tsuyoshi became obsessed with music while his peers were becoming passionate about his dad's sport. His mother, an elementary school teacher, remembers scolding a 12-year-old Tsuyoshi for cutting cram school to hit a Yellow Magic Orchestra gig at the Budokan...
...which one? I assumed you needed some musical background to join the Mozart Society Orchestra, and I felt out of place at a meeting of the Harvard Society of Black Scientists. I needed to find an activity which was low-key, and that placed an emphasis on rest and relaxation...
...won’t stop training for seven weeks to join a cello group, he was neither saying that music is inferior to athletics nor that athletes are uninterested in other activities. Skey’s comment meant only that no one could become an active member of an orchestra in a mere seven weeks...
...DIED. RAY CONNIFF, 85, bandleader, trombonist and composer of light music for the stereophonic set; in Los Angeles. Conniff's more than 100 recordings, including chart-topping hits 'S Wonderful! and Somewhere My Love, sold more than 70 million copies. His orchestra's unmistakable sound was a melange of instrumental and choral voicings replete with oooos, ahs and his signature...