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...been able to express what they hope the future holds for the arts at Harvard. Some are optimistic that the present Task Force will advance the institutionalization of the arts initiated by the 1954 committee. From publications like the Harvard Advocate to musical groups such as the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, many artistic student organizations still remain separate legal entities from the College.Davone J. Tines ’09, president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, compared his responsibilities as president to those faced by the president of a small corporation, a very different experience from being the president of the Yale...
Elsewhere in Berlin, a Mozart requiem and concert for violin by Felix Mendelssohn will be performed by the philharmonic chamber orchestra. The mayor will accompany a ceremonial procession from the old city hall in Alexanderplatz in former East Berlin to the so-called new synagogue in the center of the city, where an exhibit of rare photographs of the event entitled "Fire! Anti-Jewish Terror on Kristallnacht" is being shown...
Nobody in Chinese officialdom gets angry at Long anymore. The artistic director and chief conductor of the China Philharmonic Orchestra, Long spent this October the way he's spent all his recent Octobers, dashing from concert hall to concert hall around Beijing, joining the capacity crowds jamming into decidedly Chinese venues to hear some decidedly un-Chinese music: Puccini in the Forbidden City; Dido & Aeneas at the Beijing Concert Hall; Handl's Messiah at the Wang Fu Jing Church; Wagner's Tannhäuser at the downtown Poly Theater. People who order their tickets in advance get in; the rest...
...left China in 1988 and spent five years at the Hochschule Academy in West Berlin, then several more years in Hong Kong as part of the small classical music community there. In 1990 and 1992 he visited Beijing and was given the opportunity to conduct the Central Philharmonic Government Orchestra - a party-run symphony with a musical reputation as dreary as its name but which represented the best China had. Finally, in 1997, he decided to return to Beijing full-time with the intention of establishing an annual music festival. The first such two-week event occurred the following year...
...across Europe and the Americas. Germany alone sent two complete opera companies - a massive mobilization that involved 420 people and 16 trailer-sized shipping containers. The overall program was an eclectic one that included an evening-long tribute to Leonard Bernstein performed by the China Philharmonic, a globally competitive orchestra that pushed aside the government symphony in 2000 and that Long himself was tapped to lead. Just days after the 2008 festival ended, Long traveled to New York City, where the Bernstein performance was shown on eight giant screens in Times Square, just blocks from the spot where Bernstein...