Word: conductor
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Comfortably sexy, occasionally angry at the opacity of the young Bergman (played with tight, menacing restraint by Krister Henriksson), she's still amazed at how their self-absorption, matched by the self-destructive, almost 19th century romanticism of her conductor-husband (Thomas Hanzon), leads from the merely regrettable to the definitively tragic...
DIED. VICTOR BORGE, 91, hammy pianist and conductor whose one-man Broadway show, Comedy in Music, ran a record 849 performances; in Greenwich, Conn. Borge originally trained as a concert pianist in his native Denmark, but eventually began incorporating satire and sight gags into his act. A Jew, he fled Europe to escape the Nazis, arriving in the U.S. speaking no English but ultimately perfecting his act to gain worldwide acclaim...
Gunther Schuller, a legendary figure in American music, celebrates his 75th birthday this month. For nearly 60 years, as a performer, composer, conductor, educator and historian, he has contributed to the musical vitality of America through his innumerable accomplishments...
...other conductor Schuller acknowledges is Dmitri Mitropoulos, who was the music director of the New York Philharmonic at the time. "Mitropoulos really put me on the map when he conducted two pieces of mine in a season, which was unheard of. Next thing I know, I'm getting congratulatory letters from the leading American composers of the day, like Samuel Barber and Aaron Copland. I was completely unknown at the time...
...Schuller has also established himself as a leading conductor. He is known for his controversial but influential views on conducting. "I really believe in a philosophy which has total, unequivocal respect for the composer and for the score. I reject the word 'interpretation.' My whole way of conducting is to do exactly and imaginatively what the composer has written. I don't follow some tradition or recording that some famous conductor did ten years ago. My book, The Complacent Conductor, has been attacked by thousands of conductors. They put their egos first, in a way saying, 'Look, I'm better...