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...Goto: I went to an unspecialized private school in New York, and I got to do a lot of things and have a wide perspective. But I had been to Julliard Pre-College for two years, and I saw the kind of difficulty [my friends] had to go through psychologically. In a conservatory, there’s only one way in and one way out, and that crushes a lot of people. Some are able to pull it off—to go through that tunnel by sheer willpower and talent and emerge as a giant in the field...
...receptive to the feedback of the others. People are there not to compete but to experiment and to explore the boundaries of their musicality. They’re always striving to improve themselves under their own terms. Alan Gilbert [’89], the new conductor of the New York Philharmonic, is a family friend, and he conducted BachSoc. He and other alumni have said it was incredibly enriching. I’ll continue to play with them as long as they’ll have me. If I had time I’d try to be a member...
Frank H. Rich ’71, currently a New York Times columnist and formerly their chief theater critic, first met Sondheim after writing a Harvard Crimson review of “Follies,” a Boston production for which Sondheim wrote the music and lyrics...
...enough to let their kids venture outside without Secret Service protection. Just ask Lenore Skenazy, who to this day, when you Google "America's Worst Mom," fills the first few pages of results - all because one day last year she let her 9-year-old son ride the New York City subway alone. A newspaper column she wrote about it somehow ignited a global firestorm over what constitutes reasonable risk. She had reporters calling from China, Israel, Australia, Malta. ("Malta! An island!" she marvels. "Who's stalking the kids there? Pirates?") Skenazy decided to fight back, arguing that we have...
Skenazy, a Yale-educated mom who with her husband is raising two boys in New York City, had ingested all the same messages as the rest of us. Her sons' school once held a pre-field-trip assembly explaining exactly how close to a hospital the children would be at all times. She confesses to being "at least part Sikorsky," hiring a football coach for a son's birthday and handing out mouth guards as party favors. But when the Today show had her on the air to discuss her subway decision, interviewer Ann Curry turned to the camera...