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...Canada's Team The men and women who will push for the podium at Athens and make the nation proud
...Canada's Team The men and women who will push for the podium at Athens and make the nation proud
...Donato stepped to the podium at the press conference formally announcing his hire as men’s hockey coach, a level of electricity, of giddy anticipation, unparalleled in recent memory swept over an audience already awash in the flickering lights of flashbulbs and waiting television cameras...
...only inauthentic moment came after the music stopped: whereas a Western conductor would have turned around on the podium to bask in the rapturous ovation of a sold-out house, Lan Shui, the orchestra's Shanghainese music director, immediately hopped down from his perch and threw his arms around the nearest soloists, pushing them forward in a comradely display of humility...
...Whatever the reason for Asia's increasing mastery of Western music, the musicians themselves are shedding their modest reserve. His behavior on the conducting podium may be self-effacing, but Lan Shui talks about the Singapore Symphony Orchestra in bold, even hubristic terms. On the morning after his performance of the "Symphony of a Thousand" at the Esplanade, he asserts, "I think it's possible for us to play Mahler better than the Vienna Philharmonic. When we toured Japan with Mahler's Ninth Symphony, there were one or two performances that were as good as Vienna's?or not worse...