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...months spent days seeking out his demigod and nights sleeping on park benches and in public toilets. Today, wherever Rostropovich plays, tickets sell out within hours. Only one week after he announced his decision to defect, the National Symphony chose Rostropovich to succeed their outgoing musical director and conductor...
When he plays the cello Rostropovich adopts the same manner he uses to captivate a master class audience--animated gesture and colorful language. But with the instrument before him he is more at home, more self-assured, more convincing. "You must be like a conductor when you play," Rostropovich insisted as Ma played in the master class. "You must not be only you." From watching the Russian rehearse with the Dvorak concerto with Boston Symphony a week ago, it was clear that he has taken his own advice to heart...
Wagner: Overture to Die Meistersinger, Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde, Prelude to Parsifal, Preludes to Act I and Act III of Lohengrin (Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink, conductor; Philips; $7.98). If records like this did not come along occasionally, one would tend to take these familiar excerpts for granted-as Herbert von Karajan obviously does in a bleary competing version on Angel. The freshness and vigor of Haitink's interpretations stem, surprisingly enough, from his scrupulously orthodox approach. He is less interested in conveying his own message than in getting his men-all of whom seem...
Died. Percy Faith, 67, Canadian-born conductor-composer-arranger whose soothing sounds comforted the generation brought up on quiet evenings at home with live radio music; of cancer; in Los Angeles...
...which she later daringly appeared, navel exposed, in costume sans midriff. One of her most famous performances was at the Metropolitan Opera in 1931: she sang the difficult "Mad Scene" in Lucia di Lammermoor in the key of F, an entire tone higher than the original score. Married to Conductor André Kostelanetz from 1938 until their divorce in 1958, Pons moved to Dallas in 1961 and remained active in local opera...