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EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL (Aug. 24-Sept. 13) this year has an Italian slant, featuring works by composers from Monteverdi and Corelli to Dallapiccola and Nono. Opera predominates, but the London Symphony Orchestra, the New Philharmonia, and such soloists as Pianists Claudio Arrau and Misha Dichter, Violinists Itzhak Perlman and Nathan...
When conducting, Woody took delight in a wide range of repertory, with specialties in the Renaissance, the Golden Age of choral music, 20th Century contemporaries, and the classics of Bach, Handel, Mozart, Berlioz, and Brahms.
New Audience. To the directors of the Philharmonic, Boulez's kind of belligerence is obviously a risk to be seriously weighed. So is his lack of experience in the bread-and-butter area of any symphony orchestra's life: the 19th century repertory. By and large he made...
Some critics of American orchestral life contend that the real trouble is that the symphony has been for too long a plaything of the wealthy. Even though symphony-going is not dominated by the rich to the extent that it was 40 years ago, it is still a formal experience...
Better Than Brahms? So, alas, are most of the other antiquities performed this month at Butler's second annual Festival of Romantic Music. The six-day exercise in musical archaeology opened with the lushly sentimental overture to The May Queen, a cantata by the English composer William Sterndale Bennett...