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Flame Keeper. In the years since, Haftel has brought virtually all the world's top soloists to Israel, started a highly successful opera and ballet program, increased the players' average salary from $90 to $500 a month, launched the orchestra on tours of the world's concert halls. He is board of directors, chaplain, negotiator, booking agent and benevolent, all-round dictator all at once. In the band room the players jokingly refer to him as their "Jimmy Hoffa." Haftel, who draws a salary of only $70 a month more than the lowest-paid fiddler, has turned...
Floating Vision. Why Purcell? "Why not?" says Lawrence Kelly, producer of Celebration. "It was a question of achieving unity of presentation, wrapping up all the performing arts-orchestral, ballet and opera-and there are not many composers who would fill the bill as nicely as Purcell. It's an appetite-whetting thing." The curtain raiser was the world premiere of Fantasy, a short, four-movement suite "in homage to an earlier England" by Composer Virgil Thomson. After a drum roll and a flurry of brass, the music settled down to a sober exercise in what might be called...
...grander scale was a superb new ballet based on Purcell's music for The Faerie Queen, starring Britain's Dame...
...adults, especially women with baby carriages, the architects provided a peaceful, elevated sitting area, walled in to keep out wind and noise. Next to it they scooped out a sunken 1,000-seat amphitheater; it has already been booked throughout the summer for free concerts and sing-alongs, ballet and amateur talent shows, and will be used this June for local high school graduation exercises...
...London's Victoria and Albert Museum. And though the artist's work seemed to critics of his time as saccharinely pornographic as orgies sculpted in marzipan, the exhibition recalls his widespread influence. Norwegian Expressionist Edvard Munch based some of his violent images directly on Beardsley drawings. The ballet impresario Daighilev had sets designed from Beardsley. Kandinsky and even Picasso were admirers. Beardsley's sense of abstract design even relates to the hard-edge abstraction practiced today...