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A Claim to Fame

They each near the centers of two of the 1960s’ most important acts, bands that turned rock and roll on its side by infusing folk and country. They both went on to decisive music careers that furthered the sounds they’d help pioneer. They even played together in the 1970s. Now they are playing together again. So we decided to put Richie Furay and Chris Hillman side by side. Who’s the winner? Read on:



Three More and Out

This weekend marks the halfway point of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra’s Summerfest season at Artpark in Lewiston. Resident Conductor Robert Franz leads the orchestra for one last time on Friday in “An Evening with Neglia Ballet,” before BPO Music Director Joann Falletta returns to the podium for the Saturday and Sunday concerts. Last weekend’s eloquently realized performance of the Beethoven Ninth Symphony under the baton of Franz confirmed what many longtime BPO patrons had suspected—the current conducting staff of Music Director Joann Falletta and Resident Conductor Robert Franz is the strongest that the orchestra has enjoyed since the early 1980s combination of Music Director Julius Rudel and Associate Conductor Semyon Bychkov. It is interesting to note that while Rudel and Bychkov were European born and trained, Falletta and Franz are both American born and educated.





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