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LECTURE | Sir David Attenborough
...recipient of the Roger Tory Peterson Medal, Sir David Attenborough will give the Roger Tory Peterson Memorial Lecture, “Bird Artists and Artist Birds: Plumes and Bowers in New Guinea” Sunday, which focuses on his work in natural history. He is a conservationist, natural history filmmaker, and host of the popular BBC series, “The Life of Birds.” The series documented some of the world’s rarest birds and involved 256,000 miles of travel – 10 times around the earth. Tickets free but required in advance...
...mezzo-soprani in the world. Her early career established her reputation with collaborations with such musical luminaries as Herbert von Karajan, Daniel Barenboim and Nikolaus Harnoncourt. She has since worked with such renowned conductors as Claudio Abbado, Pierre Boulez, Myung-Whun Chung, Christopher Hogwood, James Levine, Zubin Mehta, and Sir Simon Rattle to name...
Unlike the “yes, sir,” “no, sir” personalities of most soldiers we met, these guys were full of personality and flair. They play practical jokes on each other. They drive down to the Army barracks at night and recruit female troops to come up to the palace for pool parties. They sneak beers into the medical fridges (due to the “hearts and minds” purpose of Operation Enduring Freedom, alcohol consumption is prohibited for U.S. armed forces in Iraq...
...says. Already he's begun tinkering with the SSO's architecture. Building from the foundations up, he'd like to hold master classes - as he does each summer at Siena's Accademia Chigiana - with young Australian conductors, to fill the ranks left by expat stars Simone Young and Sir Charles Mackerras. "We have a fantastic orchestra, fantastic soloists, good composers - why we have not conductors?" he asks with a rhetorical flourish...