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Conductor James Yannatos leads the HRO in a performance of Ravel Daphnis et Chloe (Suite No. 2) and Brahms Symphony No. 4. Also featured will be the world premiere of Yannatos’ own Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, featuring soloist Joseph Lin ’04. Tickets $10/$8/$6 for students (HBO). 8 p.m. Sanders Theatre...
What they've come to expect is a more expressive conducting style than that of his sometimes stern-faced predecessor, Dutchman Edo de Waart. Gelmetti's performance of Ravel's Bol?ro two years ago has already passed into Sydney folklore. Loose of hip, his stomach thrust forward, he seemed to coax Ravel's rhapsodic wave out of his shoulders. Seeing him perform the same piece with the Berlin Symphony Orchestra a year before, the newspaper Der Tagesspiegel went so far as to say, "Gelmetti conducts with his stomach." Whatever the case, his expansive enjoyment of the music is infectious...
This year’s productions promise to be no less ambitious. The Ravel will be performed in French with a full orchestra and English supertitles...
BOSTON PHILHARMONIC. The Boston Philharmonic Orchestra returns to Sanders to play pieces by Debussy, Chausson, Harbison, Saint-Saëns and Ravel. Just prior to the concert, a lecture by conductor Benjamin Zander, a former pupil of Benjamin Britten, a music commentator, and the author of The Art of Possibility: Transforming Personal and Professional Life, will offer a prefatory note on the music to follow. His lecture promises to be lively and passionate (it is said that two-thirds of the concert audience attends the lecture—a loyal following). Sunday, April 27. Lecture 1:45 p.m. Concert...
...MILESTONES, Aug. 20]. In the item on his death, you stated that "by the late 1930s he was performing in Carnegie Hall." But that was only the beginning. In 1942 Darius Milhaud wrote Suite Anglaise for Adler, and in 1952 Ralph Vaughan Williams composed Romance for Harmonica and Orchestra. Ravel left provisions in his will for Adler to be allowed to play Bolero whenever he liked, without paying royalties. When George Gershwin heard a youthful Adler play Rhapsody in Blue, he said, "The goddam thing sounds as though I wrote it for you." THURSTON MOORE Madison, Tenn...