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...appears that Maestro Solti in stabbing himself with his baton is perpetuating a tradition. It began with Jean Baptiste Lully, who, as an early ensemble conductor, clobbered his toe with the large cane he used to gesture toward his 24 violins. He died of resultant blood poisoning...
Starburst. In virtually every musical capital of the world, the sight of Solti conducting is a familiar one. It is quite a spectacle: head down, baton held high, tails flying, he seems to spring from the wings. The leap to the podium is agile and sure; the bow to the audience curt, formal and, in the European tradition, from the waist, with the heels brought together in something just this side of a click. At this point, a Stokowski would spin showily and attack immediately. Not Solti. He turns thoughtfully, spreads his feet and shoots slitty glances around to make...
...move my head more than a few inches to the left or right without turning my body," he says. There are other problems too. Sold was flailing away so furiously during a recording session of Parsifal last year that he stabbed himself in the left hand with his baton and had to be rushed to a hospital to have the point removed...
This spring's big choral offering under John Adams' baton is the Brahms Requiem. One of the great settings of the mass for the dead, those who delight in large-scale sonorities will enjoy the Brahms...
...target of the most intense pressure was Edward Grady Partin, the Baton Rouge Teamster official who had provided the most damning testimony at the jury-tampering trial. Partin had been having his own troubles with the law and seemed vulnerable. He was variously approached with offers of money and protection if he would help Hoffa and threats of further prosecution if he would not. Until Richard Nixon took office in 1968, Partin was relatively safe. But old and rather dubious criminal charges against him were revived when the Republicans took over the Justice Department. By then Hoffa's appeals...