Word: verdis
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...lectern pounder; even attorneys who have opposed him concede that he is unfailingly "pleasant and easygoing." Clients who visit him in his office are sometimes surprised to find him dressed in a bathrobe or riding britches, conducting an imaginary orchestra as a hi-fi system plays a favorite Verdi opera. He is also a Shakespeare buff who once spent an afternoon trading quotes from the Bard with Marlon Brando as the two worked out a custody settlement over Brando's child...
...Verdi: La Traviata (Deutsche Grammophon, 2 LPs). Conductor Carlos Kleiber gives a fresh, strikingly opinionated reading of an opera that is usually ill-served...
Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra--James Yannatos conducts Debussy, Schumann, Copland and Verdi. At Sanders Theater at 8:30 p.m. Call 495-2663 for tickets and info...
...variety of so-called classical music to a vast audience. The HRO starts its season this year after appearing at an international orchestra competition in Berlin, but you can judge its competence for yourself this Saturday night in Sanders Theater, when James Yannatos conducts a program of Debussy, Verdi, Copland and Schumann. The programs for the rest of the year aren't quite as wide-ranging, but watch for Shostakovitch's Symphony No. 5 in November and Schubert's Fifth Symphony in March...
Elsewhere at Harvard, the Radcliffe Choral Society. Harvard Glee Club, Collegium Musicum and Graduate Chorale crowd the vocal scene. RCS, a choir of sixty women, is touring the British Isles next June, but before that, it will team up with the Glee Club, Collegium and HRO to perform Verdi's Requiem in April...