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...describes as "a wilderness of gymnasiums, hockey rinks, old movie houses, an indoor track and a converted flower stall," Caldwell produced operas, including difficult ones that no one else would touch, and staged them ingeniously (she had to, given her cramped quarters). Working day and night as her own conductor, administrative boss, stage director, talent hunter, principal researcher and fund raiser, she has become a symbol of the vigorous growth of opera in dozens of cities around the U.S. She is also one of the great impresarios in all the American performing arts...
...solicits their advice and often takes it. During rehearsals for Barber, Bass-Baritone Donald Gramm said that it might be fun if the glass in his hand broke as Sills hit a high C in the lesson scene. Caldwell loved the idea and put it in. "As both conductor "and director, I am very much aware that it is those people up there doing it onstage," she says. "I can help them put the mosaic together, but unless they have participated and made some choices, it is nothing." There is never, however, any improvising with the music...
Count Basie, conductors Seiji Ozawa and Sarah Caldwell and cellist-conductor Mstislav Rostropovich are among the big-name performers coming to Harvard this year as part of the Learning from Performers program, the Office for the Arts announced yesterday...
...fortissimo chord of C major and everybody goes off for a drink." The music's mystery may be rooted in its unusual creation. Burgess, 58, wrote at least half of his symphony while on a lecture tour of the U.S. earlier this year. "The score was sent to [Conductor] James Dixon from Oshkosh, Wis., without my having checked a note of it aurally," he confessed. "Holiday Inns have Muzak but no pianos...
...some of his most striking orchestral music. The blazing forth of four trumpets and drums in Rinaldo's last-act aria "Or la tromba "was an effect that dazzled early 18th century audiences, and it still sounds good today. With a chamber orchestra drawn from the Houston Symphony, Conductor Lawrence Foster, the symphony's regular leader since 1972, makes his players key members of the drama. He cannot draw from Sopranos Evelyn Mandac (Almirena) and Noelle Rogers (Armida) the Baroque bravura he gets from Home, but Mandac is an especially lovely singer with a bright future. In Samuel...