Word: orchestras
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thrives under something rare in the classical music world--a long-reigning conductor. In his 26th year as music director, Seiji Ozawa is currently the world's longest serving conductor of any major orchestra. With Ozawa at its helm, the BSO attains a balance that might seem impossible for other contemporary symphonies--a balance between high sales in tickets and high quality in programming. The process of choosing a repertoire can be as political as it is musical, an inimical intersection between the vision of a governing board concerned with fund raising and a conductor concerned with musical integrity...
Decadence in magenta plus strong singing makes good opera. At three hours, L'Incoronazione di Poppea is a lazy, titillating show with a beautiful string orchestra. The Aggasiz stage is great all-around, and Poppea is fun to watch...
...curtains. It and the musical prelude could have gone on for three hours, and I would not have missed the opera. Three violins and a phat viola fiddled while Nero was ostensibly still in the dressing room. They made up the feisty, devilish flank of the Early Music Society Orchestra, balanced by a quietly attentive harp and two awfully long lutes (allegedly a "chitarrone" and a "theorbo") on the right, with two harpsichords rammed together in the middle like poorly parked flagships...
...been proud, especially if he had seen the costuming. Perhaps it was the "irony" of looking at the scantily costumed goddess Virtue (Katie Szal '99), or the cute power behind choir boy Jonathan "Yoni" Heilman's role as Amor that so easily distracted me from the layout of the orchestra pit. More probably it was the beautiful magenta flush of the entire stage, revealed at last as the prelude finished...
Returning to the University the money he won from the Wendell Scholarship his first year, he is paying the orchestra members for their time, creating a new standard in the Harvard pits which is usually staffed by under-rehearsed, if generous, volunteers. Likening parts to "the romantic climaxes of West Side Story" and others to "Jaws 20 years before its time," Allanbrook Jr. emphasizes Ethan Frome's unique ability to "bring down the idea that opera is a rarified musical form" because it is "accessible and unified--as music and theater should be when put together...