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...facto sugar daddy of the past few years” by arranging performance opportunities. Schachter also used his time as an undergraduate to explore arenas beyond his musical comfort zone. Despite having no prior vocal experience, he joined the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum as a freshman and has sung with both the Collegium and the Chamber Singers—the Collegium’s Renaissance music subgroup—ever since. “My participation in the Collegium really informed my writing of music and made me think a lot more vocally and contrapuntally about the music I write...
...skims the international arts circuit for Symphony Hall recruits, is not afraid to showcase established artists and promising new talent on the same stage. This past Saturday, music director James Levine hedged a program of eclectic music from four countries on the shoulders of young Korean conductor Shi-Yeon Sung, who recently became one of two assistant conductors of the BSO. Save for an electrifying rendition of Bela Bartok’s suite from “The Miraculous Mandarin,” however, the BSO delivered an unpolished, bland, and thoroughly disappointing performance under Sung’s baton...
...lend itself nearly as easily to screen adaptation as “American Psycho” did. “Informers” is a four-part swansong, a requiem to that free-love-meets-free-spending materialistic innocence that represented life in early-80s L.A. as sung by a film producer, his estranged wife and mistress, a doorman and his depraved uncle, and a rock star and his addictions. The movie is bound together—as was the era—by the young, blonde, tan, wealthy children of the Zeitgeist.A fifth storyline, about a literal nightclub vampire...
...Upon Potts' return to England, he worked his way through the amateur opera scene. According to the program for a 2003 Bath Opera production of Aida in which he appeared, he had already sung with that company several times and with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. But that same year, he had a nasty bicycle accident. Health difficulties and medical bills took him away from opera and into his job selling phones. (Read "Why American Idol Keeps Soaring...
...display at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y. The original 32-line ditty has been greatly distilled down to the version we know today, but lost a lot in the translation. Norworth's first draft included some extremely helpful context: that the song was sung from the point of view of one Katie Casey (whom he later renamed Nelly Kelly), a baseball fanatic trying to get her boyfriend to take her to a game instead of a show. These days, most baseball fans only know Katie's plaintive chorus...