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...Collegium Musicum scrapped its planned month-long tour of Great Britain after the choral group's conductor said he would not lead the tour in light of recent terrorist attacks, even if the risk was small. "I could not accept responsibility for 50 lives. It's too much of a chance to take," said Collegium conductor Jameson N. Marvin...
...Favorite Year) is now finely honed. Long is the adorable mistress of frazzled common sense. Hanks poises between panic and exasperation with the kind of weird aplomb Cary Grant used to manage, and Alexander Godunov, the dancer, proves himself a gifted comic actor as an egomaniacal symphony conductor. They are all comparatively new to film, and that makes their display of old, all but lost movie skills even more cheering. The medium may have a future after...
...Boulez used to be the stormy petrel of contemporary music. As a youthful radical, he booed Stravinsky for what he viewed as a failure of nerve; he has called for the demolition of the world's opera houses and denounced institutions like Lincoln Center as cultural supermarkets. Later, as conductor of both the New York Philharmonic and London's BBC Symphony Orchestra, he discomfited audiences by aggressively championing difficult new music. Ten years ago he stood the staid Wagner shrine of Bayreuth on its ear with a daring production of The Ring of the Nibelung...
...that it does not go far enough. In 1981, when Boulez premiered the first 18 minutes of the work, the technology was still largely untried. What Repons needs now is to live up even better to its name, to offer a greater, freer and more apparent interplay among conductor, performers and computers. Characteristically, Boulez intends to keep adding to the piece, so perhaps that will happen in the next installment, scheduled for a London premiere...
Fittingly, Boulez's tour will end in New York, where he will be reunited with his old orchestra. That program is vintage Boulez: Stravinsky, Debussy (the obscure, elusive Jeux), and a work of his own, Improvisations sur Mallarme, I, II, and III. The conductor's six seasons in Manhattan were not, on the whole, happy ones. "My life would have been simplified by a more positive response," he observes dryly. But he is likely to find a more receptive climate for his ideas now. Today's audience has been exposed to a range of idioms from serialism to minimalism. Boulez...