Christopher Blair
ABOUT CHRISTOPHER BLAIR
"Currently Music Advisor and Conductor of the Vidin
State Philharmonic Orchestra in Bulgaria, his prior conducting appointments have
included, the Music Directorships of the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra of
Boston, the Brown University Orchestra and the Boston Light Opera. A former
member of the faculties of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and UMASS/Lowell,
he has recently joined the faculty of Yale University’s School of Drama to teach
a course entitled “Acoustics for Performance.”
(Source:
http://www.akustiks.net/who.chris.html; “Akustiks” - 11 North Main Street,
Norwalk, CT 06854)
From a review of a performance of the Woodstock Chamber
Orchestra December 11, 2004 in Kingston, NY by Kitty Montgomery, Kingston
Daily Freeman, Thursday, December 23, 2004, p.D3.
“Everybody
wants to play well for a new maestro. On this occasion, the man on the podium
was Christopher Blair, who sneaks into our hearts as a major contender in the
conductors’ competition, even after we were seduced by the pied-piper charisma
and electrifying élan of David Leighton last month.
Blair doesn’t dance and he doesn’t
chat to the house like the ebullient musicologist that led the orchestra’s
season opener. A musician who has advanced degrees from both the New England
Conservatory and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is also an
international guest conductor and acoustic consultant at major international
concert halls. Blair has the gift of eliciting his vision of a score from his
players by mystic means.
Call it psychic transference; call it
anything you want, his baton is a wand, drawing out vibrancy and beauty from his
players in sonic suspensions surpassing cohesive fusion.”
Blair has also conducted, among others, the San Diego
Symphony Orchestra and the Melrose Symphony Orchestra, Melrose, MA.
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