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...some of the greatest Soviet artists, America is providing an almost miraculous sense of renewal. "Only here can I speak from the heart," says Mstislav Rostropovich, the master cellist who has blossomed into a first-rank conductor since moving to the U.S. in 1974. "Only here can I fulfill my life as an artist. Now I can work. That is why I am very, very happy here." But though Rostropovich has been appointed director of Washington's National Symphony Orchestra, and though he vows he will not return to Russia until artists there get more freedom, he still...
When last seen as the starched, love-parched maid in Upstairs, Downstairs, British Actress Jean Marsh was helping the Allies win World War I by serving tea at the Bellamys and moonlighting as a bus conductor. But lately she has been embroiled in World War II, filming The Eagle Has Landed, in which she plays a British WAC gone awry aiding Michael Caine, a German colonel, in a plot to kidnap Winston Churchill. How could the prim Rose of Upstairs switch from kitchenling to quisling? Easy, she says: "I'd do it to anyone for the money...
...perfection of the festival's venue obscures its contributions to opera. Standards decreed for Mozart by Glyndebourne's first conductor, Fritz Busch, sound inevitable today: original languages, a minimum of bel canto fireworks and intimate orchestration as Mozart scored it. Venetian operas now returning to the international repertory were first revived here only a decade ago under the direction of Musicologist Raymond Leppard. Glyndebourne's current showpieces are the neglected conversational operas of Richard Strauss, Capriccio and Intermezzo. They were staged for the lustrous Swedish Soprano Elisabeth Soderstrom under Administrator Moran Caplat's dictum of "hiring...
Keenan acknowledges that "at a certain point, the University will have to orchestrate the ad hoc positions, maybe get a conductor--we have to face the crucial question of whether this is going to become an international university...
Local flunkies are betting on Seiji Ozawa, the Boston Symphony's youthful conductor, for an honorary parchment...