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Almost immediately her stock as a singer also soared up and up. She was signed by London's Royal Opera and two months ago awarded her first major role in Covent Garden as Leonore in Beethoven's Fidelio. "Genius," declared one critic. "She has it in her to be one of the great lyrical-dramatic sopranos of our generation," raved the London Times...
Lily has also perfected an electronic extra she calls a "multi-note rotating drum," a device which audibly sounds the notes as they are struck on the keyboard. "If Beethoven had had this machine," she enthuses, slightly missing the point, "he could have written a symphony in a week...
...like." And he doesn't. In fact, for 35 years, Scherchen repeatedly refused invitations to conduct in the U.S. because the programs offered were too conventional for his tastes. "There is an extraordinary prejudice in America," he said, "to do works of commercial interest. Beethoven's 'Eroica,' Tchaikovsky's 'Pathetique' -fine music, but I've done them before. I desire to do things of special interest...
...accepts only students who agree to devote three years to learning his technique. He never takes more than four at a time. They travel everywhere with "Herr Doktor," as they reverently call him, taking lessons at intermissions, in taxis and restaurants. Scherchen, who at eleven knew all of Beethoven's music by heart, insists that before taking baton in hand, a student must have the score indelibly branded on his memory. Then the gestures will follow naturally...
...first concert, the HRO's new conductor Dr. James D. Yannatos chose a difficult program: Berlioz' Overture to "A Roman Carnival," Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra and Beethoven's Symphony...