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...place, then, where one would expect to encounter Anna Wintour, the editor of American Vogue, especially not at the height of London Fashion Week. Yet Wintour, along with New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art's top brass, had an assignation there with the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain. So entertaining was the performance that Wintour was even seen to remove her signature sunglasses. Indeed, the band is now penciled in to play a Vogue-sponsored benefit at the Met later this year...
...classes. Not a place, then, where one would expect to encounter Anna Wintour, the editor of American Vogue, especially not at the height of London Fashion Week. Yet Wintour, along with New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art's top brass, had an assignation there with the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain. So entertaining was the performance that Wintour was even seen to remove her signature sunglasses. Indeed, the band is now penciled in to play a Vogue-sponsored benefit at the Met later this year. And who could blame her for succumbing to the strummings of the stringed...
...instruments. Boston is currently home to numerous internationally-renowned vocal and orchestral early music groups, as well as dozens of smaller, but equally talented, ensembles. “Boston is the birthplace of period instruments and performance,” explains Carole Friedman, the executive director of the prominent orchestra Boston Baroque, which is the oldest period instrument group in North America. The group has sustained its mission to create “world class recordings and performances of baroque and classical repertoire on period instruments” for 35 years, a lineage stretching back to the earliest days...
...acting. Particularly memorable in her “I Can’t Do it Alone,” Haas is alternately sensual and energetic, and performs all the demanding acrobatics of a very difficult routine while simultaneously singing in a strong, throaty voice that carries over the orchestra...
...it.On the other hand, the musical performances are perfection itself. This maturity and style in performance are certainly due to the LHO’s tradition of incorporating graduate students and professionals into the cast and crew. Every single performer, from conductor and pianist Harry Huff and the orchestra, to Macheath’s wife Polly Peachum (Chelsey J. Forbess ’07) and her “Barbara’s Song,” to Mrs. Peachum and her “Song of Sexual Dependency,” is a master of this music?...