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...feet and shouted with understandable delight. Now brazen and glittering, now radiantly visionary, the Liebermann Second, a resplendent choral symphony based on the poetry of Walt Whitman, is the work of a composer unafraid of grand gestures and openhearted lyricism. Says conductor Litton, who picked Liebermann, 39, as the orchestra's composer-in-residence: "Lowell is proving that new classical music doesn't have to be Brussels sprouts--it can also be steak...
...point. When Orbit, Madonna's producer, sticks close to the composers' arrangements and instrumentation, as he does on Barber's "Adagio for Strings," the songs don't profit from the synthesizer's virtues and still suffer its vices. "Adagio" sounds like the work of a very tired string orchestra...
Shenton was also a trustee of the public library in the town of Lincoln and of the Boston Baroque Orchestra...
...never want to hear that piece again. I'm so sick of it that I don't think I can stomach [the Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra's] performance of it," said Alice H. S. Farmer '00, who wrote about Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring," which will be performed this Saturday in Sanders Theatre...
...concert halls, in school auditoriums, in the town's mall and even on street corners. The final evening brings all the choirs together, many of them in their national costumes, to perform at the 8,000-seat university field house. This year there is a newly commissioned work for orchestra and a massed choir of 800 that is set to text from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass. The composer is William McGlaughlin, former music director of the Kansas City Symphony and host of the National Public Radio's St. Paul Sunday. "I like writing for large forces," says McGlaughlin...