These nighttime extravaganzas feature stimulating light displays on the fronts of buildings, with accompanying sounds, as a way of drawing attention to structures' histories.
5, "Sons et Lumière" (1991), whose name, as he said, comes from the sound and light shows he would have witnessed in France - one of his many stops as a student before landing at Harvard. Y as a conductor, he also left behind an impressive body of work as a composer - including several symphonies that we're fortunate enough to have on recordings with the man himself conducting the HRO in Harvard's Sanders Theatre. (See the Harvard Crimson obit for a sense of the impact his whopping 45-year tenure had on them.)Īlthough the Harvard community mainly knew Dr. But his students raved about him - they were lucky to have had such a thoughtful, generous, and musically inspiring mentor. I only got to interact directly with him through a few brief conversations and a quick e-mail exchange about Nadia Boulanger (who was one of his teachers and is a subject of my own research). Y was a ubiquitous presence around the music building.
Last week, we got the sad news that James Yannatos - an accomplished composer and the longtime conductor of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra - died at the age of 82.ĭuring my first few years as a graduate student in Harvard's Music Department, and until he retired in 2009, Dr.
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