Word: coline
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust, with Nicolai Gedda, Jules Bastin, Josephine Veasey (London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Colin Davis conducting; Philips; 3 LPs; $20.94). This work exists on one of the composer's loftier plateaus of the mind rather than on a workable theatrical level. Thus Damnation is in many ways especially well suited to armchair listening. Continuing his masterly unprecedented series devoted to Berlioz's major works, Davis again conducts with suave professionalism and lightning-like flashes of insight and revelation...
LOST DISCOVERIES by Colin Ronan. 125 pages. McGraw-Hill. $10.95. Lively, lucid and well illustrated, this book describes scientific discoveries made by ancient civilizations that were later temporarily "lost"-from neglect, or simply because they were too far ahead of their time. The list is impressive and long...
LOGGINS & MESSINA, JESSE COLIN YOUNG--I think Loggins & Messina are boring. I think Jesse Colin Young is terrific. Perhaps the judgements seem inconsistent, since Young and L & M both play a lot of back-to-the-land-type country-rock. But Young's music is more innovative, more influenced by jazz, and his voice reeks sincerity although he doesn't take himself too seriously. Sometimes, Young 's attempts to sing blues fall through, but he sets his sights high. This should be a good concert...
LOGGINS & MESSINA, JESSE COLIN YOUNG--Thurs. Nov. 29 at the Bostob Music Hall...
...full staging in a single evening that even approximated the composer's original intentions. (Berlioz broke it up into two shorter operas but could manage to get only one staged.) Covent Garden's second version, in 1969, produced among other things, the definitive Philips recording by Conductor Colin Davis. Boston's indefatigable Sarah Caldwell staged it as two operas last year. But the Metropolitan Opera studiously avoided Les Troyens, largely because former General Manager Sir Rudolf Bing considered it a bore. Last week the big day-or rather the long night-finally arrived. The essentially uncut performance...