Word: abbado
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...potential candidates to succeed Bernstein. They are America's Lorin Maazel, Hungary's Istvan Kertesz, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos of the National Orchestra of Spain, as well as two men who once served as Bernstein's assistants: Japan's Seiji Ozawa and Claudio Abbado of Milan's La Scala...
...production of Verdi's Don Carlos. Ponelle's dark, brooding sets, painted on black velvet to emphasize the somber mood of the drama, suggested El Greco canvases come to life. The naturalistic direction he gave to the expert cast assembled by Conductor Claudio Abbado-and headed by Bulgarian Basso Nicolai Ghiaurov-gave psychological unity to Verdi's knotty tale of neuroticism and political intrigue in 16th century Spain...
...powerful intellect honed on studies in Freudian psychiatry and art history as well as music. And he employs a classroom method-unorthodox, strict and demanding-that has produced such successful practitioners as Los Angeles' Zubin Mehta, Madrid's André Vandernoot and La Scala's Claudio Abbado...
...Scala's Claudio Abbado, 34, is a stern, urgent pursuer of the long musical line, a Toscanini-like stickler for both fine-mesh detail and overall coherence. Imperious and intensely concentrated, he spurs an orchestra on with a clean, incisive beat, often achieving a surging pulse and crackling inner tension. He excels with the original texts of operas, giving them what one critic calls an "electric-shock treatment...
...CLAUDIO ABBADO. 29. from Milan, had by far the most flair. He stood with feet planted as on a rolling deck, and with great sweeps of the arms drew a rich and textured sound from the orchestra. A pianist. Abbado had none of the usual percussive tastes of the pianistic conductor: instead, he even trusted the beaters and blowers in the orchestra to come in without cues while he painted tones in the violin section. Abbado studied at the Mozarteum and the Vienna Academy of Music, and in 1958 he won the Koussevitzky Prize for conductors at Tanglewood...