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Last Saturday, the Bach Society Orchestra inaugurated its 54th concert season in Paine Hall with a stellar performance of Vaughan Williams, Paganini, and Beethoven. Guest violinist Ryu Goto ’10 captured the spotlight along with music director Aram V. Demirjian ’08, who led the orchestra with great professionalism.The evening began with English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Overture to “The Wasps,” a popular selection from a suite written for a 1909 production of Aristophanes’s satire, “The Wasps.” The overture...
...built a pool of water in which much of the action of the play takes place. The construction of the pool was a major undertaking, according to set designer Courtney E. Thompson ’09. The 18 foot by 10 foot pool was built in the lowered orchestra pit and thrust, which led them to remake almost half of the stage. “Once you’ve gone into the pool in any way, you’re affected by it,” says producer Kline. “It’s part...
...walls are adorned with old playbills and posters advertising events from generations past—the Theatre nevertheless manages to shoehorn in a 270-seat theater with a new sound system, motorized lights, and a stage thrust that also serves as a scenery elevator or a orchestra pit, depending on the production’s need. Offices and new rehearsal space fill the rest of the carefully designed six-story building, half of which is entirely underground...
Dana Knox, the new Production Coordinator of College Theatre, is eager to show off the new space. The theater’s recent upgrades include a 272-seat theater with computerized, industry-standard lighting; a mechanized orchestra pit; and a convertible rehearsal and performance space the same size as the main stage...
Exiled to the West in 1974, Rostropovich earned mass admiration, and a king's fortune. When he became music director of America's National Symphony Orchestra three years later, TIME put him on its cover, branding him, with cold-war gusto, "Washington's greatest new monument." But he always maintained a refugee's yearning for his homeland, and this only intensified the pathos of his playing. His Paris apartment was a veritable Hermitage of Russian artifacts, and even after he was stripped of his citizenship, he proudly described himself as Russian, an allegiance he affirmed by flying to Moscow earlier...