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...this misery might be avoided, according to Dr. Charles Brantigan, University of Colorado heart surgeon and part-time tuba player. In an experiment conducted at New York's Juilliard School and the University of Nebraska, Brantigan, together with his conductor-brother Thomas (whose idea it was), tested the effect of a hypertension drug called propranolol on the performance anxiety of 29 professional and student musicians. Each subject gave two solo recitals before an audience of critics and faculty members. Ninety minutes before one recital, they were given propranolol; on the other occasion, a placebo...
Some family. Shirley is a theatrical producer and literary agent. Burton is a celebrated biographer and New Yorker staff writer. And their older brother? Who else? Lenny, the conductor, lecturer, composer and 63-year-old Wunderkind. Family Matters follows all the Bernsteins from obscurity to celebrity, traveling the pull of Lenny's powerful slipstream. As Burton tells it, the early conditions were not propitious for fame. Sam, the father, was a successful businessman, a manic-depressive and a parochial ethnocentric (in later years he would refer to Dwight Eisenhower as General Eisenberg and to Adlai Stevenson as Steve Adelson...
...important element in the production's success is Conductor Riccardo Chailly, 29. Ignoring the dry, detached school of Stravinsky playing that has sprung up in the U.S., Chailly lit into the music with true Italianate gusto. Unfortunately, the mediocre international cast of mostly non-English speakers ensured that the English libretto was a blur...
...opera, the most enthusiastic acclaim goes to the stars-prima donnas and leading men who troop out from behind the curtain to bask in the bravos. By the time the conductor finally gets his turn, many patrons have already rushed up the aisles to grab a taxi. Last week in Los Angeles, though, the audience reserved its loudest cheers for the maestro: Carlo Maria Giulini, 67, returning to the operatic stage after an absence of 14 years...
Heading a top international cast, Italian Baritone Renato Bruson was totally in harmony with the conductor. His Sir John was not the lecherous, cardboard heavyweight of operatic cliche but a man of complex emotions-however inappropriately addressed to two married ladies of Windsor After a somewhat tentative start, Bruson's sharply focused voice proved equal to Verdi's demands, from the boisterous "L'onore" monologue at the end of the first scene to the sprightly C major fugue that closes the work...