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Alan T. Gilbert ’89, the chief conductor of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, will be the new music director of New York Philharmonic beginning in September 2009, the organization announced Tuesday...
When Reed finally walks on stage in jeans and a sleeveless khaki-colored T-shirt, he looks - at least from the upper ranks of the auditorium - more like a Gap model than a 65-year old rock 'n' roll legend. He is joined onstage by an orchestra and a girl's choir, while a video-clip of a Berlin bar is projected onto the backrop. The atmosphere is tense; expectations are high. Does Reed still have "it" or has he "lost it", as the character Sick Boy maintains in the movie Trainspotting. Do these songs still resonate in a Berlin...
...nearly audible sigh of relief seems to go through the audience. At least his voice has still the same distinctive, warm sound. While the singer shares his tales of depression, drug abuse and disoriented expats, the audience for the most part sits quietly in their seats. The choir and orchestra add a strangely upbeat air to the songs, the bleakness of which had irritated critics when it was released. There is not much movement on stage, except a background singer in a red dress gently rocking back and forth in a chair. One cannot help but wonder, has Berlin become...
...remarkably advanced. But his technique "was very eccentric - mainly karate chops, thumbs and knuckles, elbows," says Ockelford. "But all on the right notes." It took 10 years to teach Paravicini how to play using the more conventional method. Now he can reproduce the sound of a 50-piece orchestra, hitting as many notes as his 10 fingers can reach together and then filling in the rest with arpeggios and scales. He can shift to a different key midway through a tune, without stopping. He can dip into his mental library of thousands of tunes and come up with surprising hybrids...
...that women represent 51% of the population but only 29% of the TIME 100. It is a shame that you chose to recognize Kate Moss, an anorexic drug user, with whom no mother would want her daughter to identify. Conductor Marin Alsop, music director-- designate of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, would have made a much better and healthier role model...