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...country, nudity is still winked at -- literally -- or actively encouraged; in others, flaunting the flesh seems to enrage beholders. Rome's subway is definitely not for the shirtless. Irate passengers last week ganged up on bare-chested Belgian Tourist Daniel Serge Meuree, 23, when he ignored a conductor's suggestion to put on more clothing. Fists flew, and Meuree was hauled to a police station. After a lecture on proper attire, he was permitted to resume his journey -- wearing a blue shirt...
NIELSEN: SYMPHONY NO. 5; MASQUERADE (CBS). Somebody has to make a case for Carl Nielsen, and Conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen certainly does, in both the strikingly original symphony and the dazzling excerpts from the opera...
They booed Harry Kupfer in Bayreuth last week. To be sure, they also booed Set Designer Hans Schavernoch and Conductor Daniel Barenboim. But the real invective -- a great, throaty vassals' chorus of opprobrium -- was reserved for Kupfer, the tousle-headed East German director who had committed the unpardonable sin: staging a brilliantly theatrical production of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen that had little to do with musty tradition and everything to do with revivifying...
Leading his first Ring, Conductor Barenboim leaves a mixed impression. His predilection for slow tempos is very much in evidence, yet occasionally he bolts precipitately, as in the final scene of Siegfried, when it is all that Polaski and Jerusalem can do to keep up. There is some piquant orchestral detail at times, but at others the texture is crude. Barenboim's challenge is to find a convincing, unified point of view...
...garbled voice crackled incoherently over the public address system. The words sounded like "Feng-tu Ta-ti." How strange, I mused, that the conductor would invoke the legendary rebel turned emperor of the Ch'in dynasty through whom the Kings of Hell reported their doings to heaven. Just to be sure, I asked a fellow straphanger what our Charon of the Underworld had said. "Forty-second next," he answered...