Conductor of the People
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Gustavo Dudamel is a product of el sistema, Venezuelaâs radical approach to music education. What will he bring with him when he leads the Los Angeles Philharmonic?
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The South African composer Philip Millerâs piece, REwind: A Cantata for Voice, Tape and Testimony,â includes the voices of victims, resistance fighters and government oppressors.
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By PHIL MILLER ARTS CORRESPONDENT  SCOTLAND'S national orchestra has made an overture to the power of the internet, by opening a new online service linked to nearly 60,000 musical recordings.
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By Scott Leith, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution  Feb. 16--People TV is, like most public access stations, a good bit out  of the ordinary.
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Media & professional: Ned Temko brings together the men behind the New Statesmen and Spectator.
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Indian-born conductor Zubin Mehta is reportedly keen to take up the baton in Iraq in the belief that music can unite warring peoples.
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Kelly Holmes holds up her Olympic medals as Britain&#39;s team parades through London. Photograph: Tom Shaw/Getty Images. Thousands of people lined the streets of central London today to pay tribute to Britain&#39;s
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By Paul Horsley, The Kansas City Star, Mo.  Sep. 17--Tenor Nathan Granner and classical guitarist Beau Bledsoe have a message for those who still think classical music is staid.
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Interesting music does not tell us to be good or bad. It asks only to be admired. Getting great music and simple faith together happens, but with difficulty.
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Take 50 to 100 highly trained musicians, put instruments in their hands, place âem on stage and charge admission. Itâs called an orchestra. But how do you organize them? Pay them? Make use of their time? Keep them happy? Keep audiences happy? All sorts of models exist. I had a chat with Ivan Fischer, who leads [...].
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The conductor Sir Simon Rattle's reading of Wagner's most mystical opera aimed not for transcendence but for emotions expressed in human terms.
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In a recent column, critic Edward Reichel complained about what he feels is the Utah Symphony's too frequent scheduling of standard classics -- the offending composition here being Tchaikovsky's celebrated Violin Concerto. Mr.
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Lorin Maazel had a comparatively easy job last night in the first of this week's New York Philharmonic subscription programs. On the first half of the program, he led Mozart's Symphony No. 29 and the Horn Concerto No. 1 by Richard Strauss. He then ceded the podium to Xian Zhang, an assistant conductor at the Philharmonic since 2002, when she won first prize in the Maazel/Vilar Conductors' Competition. Ms. Zhang's task was more rigorous: she led the world premiere of
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Can the Minnesota Orchestra be the best in the country? Its Finnish conductor has thrown down the gauntlet.
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If the people won't go to the opera, bring the opera to them -- and when they least expect it.
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Latvian Mariss Jansons gave his inaugural concert as the new chief conductor of the Dutch Royal Concertgebouworchestra (RCO), following in the footsteps of Riccardo Chailly, who had led the RCO for 15 years.
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Lifestyle: 22 November 2004, Monday. Youngsters and adults sang and applauded for more than an hour the lavish rock-opera Patriarch Evtimii staged in Sofia's National Palace of Culture.