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...turning up on MTV. But no living composer of so-called serious music exerts so much hold on the imagination and loyalty of his interpreters as does the reclusive Schnittke, 59. Performers from the old East bloc such as violinist Gidon Kremer, a fellow Soviet emigre, cellist-conductor Mstislav Rostropovich and conductor Kurt Masur have been championing his works for years. Now, it seems, the rest of the world is catching...
That performance was part of a veritable Schnittke festival in the U.S. in recent weeks. Among the highlights: the American premiere of the composer's second piano sonata by pianist Boris Berman, the American debut of his Symphony No. 6 in Washington under Rostropovich's baton, and conductor Leon Botstein's North American premiere with the American Symphony Orchestra of Schnittke's Faust Cantata, an oratorio version of an opera in progress. Against all odds, Schnittke is among the most commissioned of living composers...
Boston Symphony Orchestra. Symphony Hall, 301 Mass Ave., Boston. 226-1200. Luciano Berio, conductor. Performs Mar-cello's Oboe Concerto, Berio's Echoing Curves II and Schubert/Berio's Rendering on Thursday, March 10 at 8 p.m.; Friday, March 11 at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, March 12 at 8 p.m. and Tuesday, march...
...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...