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...also recalls the most interesting package he ever received: a full-sized harp in a wooden crate for a student in the orchestra...
DIED. PEGGY LEE, 81, smoldering, velvety-voiced pop-jazz singer who started with Benny Goodman's orchestra and went on to record hits like Fever and Is That All There Is?; in Los Angeles. (See Eulogy...
...movements were written for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the Cleveland Orchestra; Carter worked on them from 1992 to 1996. Although Oliver Knussen and the BBC Orchestra premiered and recorded Symphonia in its entirety on Deutsche Gramophone, the work as a whole had never been played in the U.S. until last week...
...Monadnock Festival Orchestra, under the direction of James Bolle, gave a vigorous and virtuosic performance. The rhythmic difficulty of the work was most visible through concertmaster Ole Bohn’s arm and bow gestures before entrances. An enthusiastic audience greeted the work with a standing ovation, which Carter acknowledged from the stage...
...said that it “represents for me the ne plus ultra of the kind of programming I have striven to achieve in the 35 seasons of Monadnock music.” He certainly accomplished that task and deserves much praise for the committed performance he and the orchestra gave of Carter’s masterpiece, as well as the orchestra’s devotion to contemporary music...