Haitink
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The contrast was stunning when, in 2006, Bernard Haitink brought the London Symphony Orchestra to Avery Fisher for a survey of Beethoven’s nine symphonies.
From New York Times • Oct. 7, 2022
Ewing met Peter Hall in 1978 when she sang Dorabella in a staging of Mozart’s "Cosi Fan Tutte" at Britain’s Glyndebourne Festival directed by Hall and led by conductor Bernard Haitink.
From Fox News • Jan. 11, 2022
Ewing met Peter Hall in 1978 when she sang Dorabella in a staging of Mozart’s “Cosi Fan Tutte” at Britain’s Glyndebourne Festival directed by Hall and led by conductor Bernard Haitink.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 10, 2022
Called “the last true gentleman of the podium” by Chicago Tribune music writer John von Rhein, Mr. Haitink had a simple, unfussy manner, with none of the histrionic gestures or leaps of other conductors.
From Washington Post • Oct. 23, 2021
Never had I heard such resolve, such serenity in the face of death as Haitink found in that movement; it sang with empathy, and it seemed to sing the truth.
From New York Times • Oct. 22, 2021
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