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...shocked Ahmadabad and Ayodhya the following week made a mockery of blind optimism. Yet in certain ways, I thought, India can be not only the counter-Japan it's always seemed to be, but, in parts a corrective to Japan. The "Land of Wa" famously, ideally, functions like an orchestra in which everyone knows her part in a score designed to present a public harmony; India, by contrast, is a riot of competing interests in which everyone is flying off in a different direction. Yet what this also means is that when the government in Japan is paralyzed, the people...
...midway into her 80s. She was patron or president of more than 300 organizations. And in recent years, she kept up an amazing public and private schedule for a person her age: she attended a performance of the Royal Ballet on her 101st birthday, reveling as the orchestra played and audience sang "Happy Birthday." In the last weeks of her life, she even hosted a small party on the occasion of the Cheltenham races at her Windsor residence...
...birds of our forests.” The birds awake in stages, beginning with Midnight, through the Dawn Chorus and ending at Noon. The music begins with the lone nightingale represented by a succession of octaves on the solo piano. A duet of nightingales soon follows. The orchestra does not play a large role in the piece, and when it does enter the forest of birds it serves as an indicator of the timbre of the birds’ voices and their environment...
...joyful symphony, rendered in equally high spirits by the BSO. The connection between personal misery and musical delight would recur several times throughout the rest of Beethoven’s life. It was necessary, after an intense musical evening, to end on a somewhat lighter note; the orchestra provided this perfectly. The Boston Symphony Orchestra’s graceful rendition of the familiar melodies and brought the diversely beautiful program to a successful close...
Boston Symphony Orchestra...