Word: symphonicment
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NHK tries to fulfill this promise by devoting as much as 40% of its daily general-service programming to educational purposes: lessons in calligraphy, the guitar, economics, political science, English, French, German and Russian. News takes up a considerable 35% of general programming, entertainment only 24%. One recent highlight: The...
Because the turnover in the old Big Five is so low, America's crop of young, conservatory-trained symphonic players-by common consent the best in the world-have flooded the ranks of the second-tier orchestras. A noteworthy result is that groups like the Buffalo Philharmonic, the Denver...
The greatest of maestros should have proved himself in symphonic music as well as in opera. Levine has not done that. Sir Georg Solti has. If you compare their respective recordings of Mozart's Don Giovanni, you will discern how superior Solti's conducting is.
He had originally planned to play Beethoven's Fourth Concerto. Several weeks ago, however, he decided that that titanic work might be too ambitious for his right hand, still experiencing what he calls "a certain muscular disquietude" from the ailment that crippled it in 1965. His choice instead was...
For the past several weeks, to the sound of brass choirs and symphonic processionals, commencement speakers have taken their places behind campus daises across the country to offer such parting wisdom as they possessed. For the nation's 1.3 million college graduates, the advice from their distinguished elders tended...