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Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring (Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti conducting; London, $6.98). Solti's way with Berlioz, Wagner, Mahler and Strauss stamps him as a Romantic and post-Romantic conductor without superior. This megatonic Rite now confirms his mastery of the contemporary idiom. Where Pierre Boulez etches in cold objectivity, Solti paints in swirling shapes and colors. The effect is electrifying...
...nation's musical forces are giving Ives' music the kind of extensive exposure it never had during his lifetime. In Florida, the University of Miami is sponsoring a seven-month celebration, during which 35 musical organizations intend to perform all of Ives' published works. Conductor Pierre Boulez and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center have devoted a week to an Ives festival. Yale University and Brooklyn College concluded a joint Charles Ives Centennial Festival-Conference last week...
...BOULEZ: LE MARTEAU SANS MAITRE (Columbia). A bright, precise contemporary landmark conducted by the bright, precise man who wrote it, Pierre Boulez...
BARTOK: CONCERTO FOR ORCHESTRA (Columbia). Conductor Pierre Boulez finds heart as well as anxious nerve in a 20th century classic...
...author is full of hopeful notions about how it should be filmed. "I don't think wings are desirable in a jet age," he says judiciously. "The music ought to be electronic, by disciples of Boulez, but with bits of Purcell for the Garden of Eden." He sees Adam clearly as stuffy, blond, Nordic-a Law-and-Order man. Eve, "the nicer part of human nature, not altogether reasonable, but charming," should be played by a dark girl, "perhaps a West Indian with a beautiful voice." But he grants that actors and voices might be a problem. "Great personages...