Word: conductor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...management, wearied by Battle's incessant demands -- last year, she abruptly pulled out of a Met Rosenkavalier after a tiff with conductor Christian Thielemann -- informed Columbia Artists' formidable president, Ronald Wilford, that Battle would be fired. Wilford asked that the decision be postponed a couple of days and, in a meeting with Volpe on Feb. 7, pleaded Battle's case. "Enough is enough," Volpe told him. "This has to stop." Later that day, after Battle left him three telephone messages, Volpe finally called her back and told her she was fired. Says Volpe: "Please understand that I pride myself...
...Chicago by Daniel Barenboim. Following the French performance, Krainik decided that the lighting design was unsuited to the Lyric's stage. "It would have cost us an extra $600,000 just to put up and take down the lights," she explains. So, undaunted, she hired a new director, designer, conductor and soprano to complement her original cast. Baritone Franz Grundheber's tormented Wozzeck, soprano Kathryn Harries' ripe Marie, Graham Clark's strutting Captain and Norman Bailey's Mengelesque Doctor, all under the commanding baton of Richard Buckley, brought Berg's acerbic, atonal ode to the lumpenproletariat to vivid, expressionistic life...
...week on the tabloid TV A Current Affair to make the point. Even if he were to decide otherwise, he has suffered a mental breakdown. Susan McDougal is separated from him; last week she pleaded not guilty to a California indictment charging her with embezzling $200,000 from symphony conductor Zubin Mehta, whom she served as a financial adviser. Even Leach concedes the whole affair has no potential to be another Watergate; it is entirely possible the Clintons will never face any penalties at all or be asked only to repay some money to Madison Guaranty depositors and be accused...
...traditional German opera-house ladder. Beginning with the Frankfurt Opera, where he was Georg Solti's assistant, Dohnanyi spent time in Lubeck, Cologne and finally his adopted hometown of Hamburg before heading to the shores of Lake Erie. He has ended any doubts about his abilities as a symphonic conductor with performances that combine Szell's rigor, Boulez's unerring ear and a controlled interpretative fire...
...composer of music needs not only a conductor and orchestra (or instrumentalists) but an audience to listen. What artist hasn't dreamt of having his or her art being viewed and appreciated by many generations of the public? So too is the need for sculpture, architecture, archaeology to have its audience...