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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...funny foreign name was getting his wavy, dark-blond hair cut. The barber struck up a conversation. "So," she inquired, "what do you do?" He replied that he worked with the local symphony orchestra. "Wow!" she exclaimed. "What instrument do you play?" Actually, he said, he was the conductor -- had she ever attended a concert? "Of course not," she said, and went back to cutting his hair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: L.A.'s Fair-Haired Finn | 3/15/1993 | See Source »

...material. But she was born with more than that. Her dark good looks project grandly across the footlights: a mane of lustrous hair, huge brown eyes, a generous mouth and milky shoulders that enhance a decolletage. She also has temperamental stability and a ready sense of humor. Says conductor James Levine, artistic director of the Metropolitan Opera: "She has extraordinary self-perception, without the narcissism and the rest of the baloney." She will need her level-headedness as her international career, already robust, continues to expand. Everyone wants Bartoli...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opera's Roman Candle Newcomer | 12/14/1992 | See Source »

Another listener was the late Herbert von Karajan, who asked her to sing some Bach at the Salzburg Easter Festival. The conductor died before the performances, but she treasures the experience of rehearsing with him. "Bach was another world to me," she says. "At the beginning I was always in a rush. Karajan taught me to take the tempo tranquilly, to take a breath. This is something I use for everything." To those names, add Sir Georg Solti, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Chailly -- a stellar fan club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opera's Roman Candle Newcomer | 12/14/1992 | See Source »

...THINK OF VIVALDI as merely the composer of The Four Seasons and several hundred indistinguishable concertos, VIVALDI'S FAVORITES, VOL. 1 (ESS.A.Y) could be the most pleasurable, sensibility-cleansing surprise in a long time. The performers are the Philharmonia Virtuosi, who, since being founded in 1974 by their protean conductor, Richard Kapp, have blended a changing ensemble of players from the New York Philharmonic with talented younger musicians in a common pursuit of polished eclecticism. These six concertos, for diverse combinations of instruments, are utterly distinctive and absorbing. Favorite Favorites: the exuberant Concerto in C Major and the poignant Largo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short Takes: Dec. 14, 1992 | 12/14/1992 | See Source »

...superb. The sheer number of minor characters and the indistinguishability of their names does not prevent certain actors from achieving distinction: particularly wonderful were Candy Buckley as the secretary Polixena Vasilievna Toropetskaya, Margaret Gibson as the cat-hurling actress Lyudmila Silvestrovna Priakina and Jeremy Geidt as Romanus, the conductor at the Independent Theatre. Derek Smith is not a very dynamic Maksudov; although he expresses his suicidal desperation nicely, his creative anxieties and joys are only sketchily delineated. Alvin Epstein as Ivan Vasilyevich, the director of the Independent Theatre conspicuously modeled on Stanislavsky, is eminently believable in the imperiousness...

Author: By Vineeta Vijayaraghavan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Beautiful Black Snow Won't Stick | 12/10/1992 | See Source »

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