The cheerful, enthusiastic Tani also thrilled the marketing department with his costumed performance as Woody in a promo video for the MSO's "Toy Story" screenings with orchestra performances.

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Instead of a monochrome Art of Fugue they offered an enticingly coloured one, with a harpsichord (played by the AAM’s director Laurence Cummings), four string players and four performers on plangent, ...

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The orchestra on stage revealed miracles of scoring: chattering bassoons, serene string melodies, gruff brass chorales, all cleanly shaped and projected; co-ordination was sometimes edge-of-the ...