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...altitude. The skeptics now trek west to see his dizzying success. The present season will see polished performances ranging from Don Giovanni and Madame Butterfly to Honegger's Joan of Arc, combined with a flair for the new. In the much-anticipated American premiere of the late Alban Berg's unfinished, powerful and grittily atonal opera Lulu, Soprano Joan Carroll will sing the dissolute heroine...
...Roman villa, Henze is capable of turning out serious music with elegant speed and imperturbability. His Fifth Symphony is the product of one good month last summer; this summer he plans to write six concertos for neglected instruments such as the trombone and guitar. He swoops through the Alban hills in his Maserati, sunning himself in "the Italian humanity" and perfecting his Roman dialect. "I live in a tradition of German artists who have lived in Italy," he says. "Mozart, Goethe and Wagner all went to Italy, and when Handel stayed in Naples, he had 20 valets. I think that...
...rendering of that virtuoso war horse La Mer. But there is another view of Debussy-one that audiences are being reminded of more and more often in the centennial year of his birth. Debussy was in fact, a revolutionary who led such tradition-breakers as Arnold Schoenberg and Alban Berg into the 20th century...
...trying to elevate the orchestra to a position of new importance, where it would become the main commentator on the action. His opera's moonstruck tale of love and fratricide, which returned to the Metropolitan last week after an absence of two seasons, had a staunch admirer in Alban Berg, who acknowledged that Pelléas provided him with the model for his own tradition-smashing Wozzeck. But for all his growing success, Debussy's music earned him practically no money. Most of the time he depended on handouts from his few friends...
Fifty-five years ago, the first workmen came to Washington's Mount Saint Alban to build a canopy under which President Theodore Roosevelt set the foundation stone for the Washington Cathedral. Now, in the still unfinished splendor of this Episcopal Church, the Very Rev. Francis Sayre Jr., dean of the cathedral, enjoys speculating on the progress of the many workmen who-on one job or another-have been around ever since. If past performance is a guide, the cathedral will not be completed until 1991, but Dean Sayre is undisturbed by temporal equations. His only hope, he says modestly...