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That was Choral Director Margaret Hillis, 54, warming up the Chicago Symphony Chorus before putting the final rehearsal polish on Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. The Ninth is one of her specialties, but at this summer's Ravinia Festival, she has been conducting all manner of choral works-Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust, Schoenberg's Gurre-Lieder, and this past weekend a potpourri of Lerner and Loewe. Although Hillis is also music director of the nearby Elgin Symphony Orchestra, she might be called an unsung heroine: her principal job is to ready her chorus for other...
...Pelleas and Melisande, which she was still singing at the age of 60. Her clear, controlled voice was not considered robust enough for the Metropolitan Opera, but she sang in smaller houses in the U.S., and her recordings of turn-of-the-century French songs by Debussy, Berlioz, Ravel and Faure are still rare collectors' items...
...concludes its ambitious and successful season this Friday with a concert featuring Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique. Schoenberg's marvelous Five Pieces for Orchestra and El Deseo Sagrado, the piece which won the HRO's composition competition, will fill out the program...
Symphonie Fantastique by Berlioz, Five Pieces for Orchestra by Schoenberg, and El Deseo Sagrado by William Banchz; Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, James Yannatos, conductor; Sanders...
Lawrence Durrell has always made better sound than sense, but his cadenzas are so splendidly overripe (the effect being that of Berlioz played by an orchestra of gondoliers) that his novels have not suffered in the least. They are clever, evocative, atmospheric and essentially unserious...