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Although he is a masterly performer of Beethoven and Brahms. Stern, 41. is the only topflight violinist who regularly plays the modern masters-Prokofiev, Hindemith, Bartok, Berg. Each performance is a marriage of technique with the temper of the music. "I don't want to be known only as a violinist," Stern once said. "I want to be a player of music-one whose instrument just happens to be the violin." His ambition is snared by his peers...
Preposterous as the story is, it gives Ronnefeld a fine chance to exercise his talent for musical satire; the score glitters with echoes of half a dozen com posers, from Berg to Bartok. Carl Orff's cantata Carmina Burana is brilliantly parodied by an offstage male chorus singing a salty Latin text on the mating habits of ants; acidulous Stravinskyan brasses turn up in Act III. The real wonder is that despite the borrowing Composer Ronnefeld's score has a character of its own brash, melodramatic, full of rhythmic fire...
...selling where the sheer size of its audience, combined with the low cost of reaching it, makes television an almost mandatory medium." Certainly, no other medium can do a better job in peddling kitchen scouring pads-a job that Cone's agency gave to Gertrude (Molly Goldberg) Berg: "Who, except the makers, wants to argue the merits of competitive brands? This is where television's captive audience for advertising pays off ... Television [makes] the difference because it [reaches] so many people and [holds] them long enough to win an argument they didn't know they...
...Crimson opened with an easy win in the medley relay, as Bob Kaufmann, Frank Wood, Bob Price, and Allen Berg churned over the 400 yard course in 3:54, to finish more than a lap ahead of their opponents. Kaufmann, who is still recovering from a bout of mononucleosis, swam only in the relays, passing up the backstroke and the individual medley...
...study of his 14-room house in Nyack, N.Y., and just finished in time. As curtain time approached, he was feeding the score to the singers five pages at a clip. The time is ripe for good opera, Ward believes, but he deplores the tendency-exemplified in Alban Berg's Wozzeck-to shift the dramatic emphasis from singers to orchestra. "Everything must happen in the voice," says Ward. "Opera belongs on the stage, not in the orchestra...