Essays About conducting

Colin Davis in Boston

by Margo Miller Colin Davis died 14 April 2013 in London at the age of 85. When Colin Davis first conducted the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1967, he was something most players had not experienced. He was young,… Read More

In Englands green & pleasant Land

To judge from video footage of Last Night of the Proms, 2013, the “dark Satanic Mills” that William Blake references in Jerusalem—Britain’s other national anthem (Hubert Parry, 1916)—were on the minds of exactly nobody.  There on the podium stood the American conductor Marin Alsop,… Read More