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Beethoven: The Nine Symphonies (Berlin Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan conductor, Deutsche Grammophon; 8 LPs). His third recording of the Beethoven symphonies reaffirms the impression that Karajan, 69, is a man surcharged with new energy, and ever more confident of his powers. As one would expect from this conductor, there is no arbitrary tampering with tempos, or other excesses marching under the banner of personal insight. Karajan accepts the boundary lines and then plays the game for all he is worth. His Eroica, for example, is a shade faster than before, his Fourth broader, darker, more ruminative. But what really sets...
Brahms' Symphony No. 1 in C Minor is the feature work this Friday in a performance by the Boston University Symphony Orchestra. The conductor is Joseph Silverstein. 855 Comm...
...capture the exciting quality of Rostropovich's musical personality. But excitement and exuberance are not the only qualities needed by a conductor. He must know the repertoire and how to exact from the players the precision demanded by the scores. Rostropovich is the master of the grand gesture, but the ensemble results are not yet equal to his expansiveness on the podium...
Chicago Symphony Conductor Sir Georg Solti slipped as he stepped out of an elevator, and his assistant fell into a heroine's role. With Solti bedridden after straining a ligament in his back, Symphony Chorus Director Margaret Hillis, 56, was tapped as a last-minute stand-in to conduct a Manhattan performance of Mahler's difficult Eighth Symphony. Hillis spent an hour with the ailing maestro going over the score, listened to a radio tape of an earlier performance, and with just two days' preparation stepped up to the conductor's podium in Carnegie Hall...
...conductor will have a reduced teaching load so he can concentrate on performing rather than on academic research, Kathleen Sweeney '80, an RCS member, said last week...