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With a radiant look of joy creasing his face, the conductor breaks the bonds of gravity...
...this Friday's Sanders performance, chief conductor of the Bolshoi Theatre, Alexander Lazarez, will lead the Instrumental Soloists of the Bolshoi Theatre. Soviet composer, Rodion Shchedrin, will come to the theater for the American premiere of his two pieces, "Geometry of Sound" and "Frescoes of Dyonisios." Shchedrin's presence is the "special highlight" of the performance, Morgan said...
Colleagues do, though. Tenor Placido Domingo sang the premiere of Lloyd Webber's 1985 Requiem under Conductor Lorin Maazel, who also recorded the orchestral version of Lloyd Webber's Variations. Maazel, former music director of the Cleveland Orchestra and a longtime Lloyd Webber supporter, praises the composer's "great talent -- I would even say genius" for melody...
...familiar conceit is that each conductor interprets a masterpiece differently, continually freshening it. That may once have been true, when there were fewer concerts than today. But airplanes, records and the 52-week season have changed the rules of the game. Works are repeated incessantly in the concert hall by the same succession of globe-trotting conductors, and the same performance can be heard repeatedly at home. Not only have certain pieces become norms but their interpretations have as well...
CARL NIELSEN: SYMPHONY NO. 1; LITTLE SUITE, OP. 1 (CBS/Masterworks). The neglected First Symphony, sizzling in the hands of the young Finnish conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen...