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...idea for the festival came from Antal Dorati, music director of the National Symphony and, among other things, conductor of a mammoth LP set of all 104 symphonies on London Records (46 records in all). Why a festival? How else, asks Dorati, to show the enormous range of the man and his music? He adds: "He was no child prodigy. He developed so much, from enormous talent into great genius. I do not think it can be coincidence that his greatest work came after he shed his livery." That was of course after he was given free rein...
...Bach Society Orchestra have openings for all instrumentalists, especially and chronically for string players. Bach Society Wed., thurs., and Sat. 10 a.m.-5 p.m., H.R.O. next week. The way these things usually go, everybody shows up for the last day of auditious, so if you want to catch the conductor in a good humor come the first...
...fact, dilatancy seems to explain virtually all the strange effects observed prior to earthquakes. As cracks open in rock, the rock's electrical resistance rises because air is not a good conductor of electricity. The cracks also increase the surface area of rock exposed to water; the water thus comes in contact with more radioactive material and absorbs more radon-a radioactive gas that the Soviet scientists had noticed in increased quantities in Garm-area wells. In addition, because the cracking of the rock increases its volume, dilatancy can account for the crustal uplift and tilting that precedes some...
...Only those who have suffered very deeply can totally understand Dmitri Shostakovich's music," said Cellist-Conductor Mstislav Rostropovich as he paid tribute to his former teacher and friend. "He gave to the world not only a sense of great beauty, but also a feeling for the great difficulties and contradictions of the epoch in which he lived...
Never in Western music has there been so much concern with faithfulness to the written score as in the last twenty years. There is a feeling current in many conductors that dynamic markings and tempo indications must be as carefully observed as the notes themselves. Chen considers this kind of "honesty" the most basic part of a conductor's obligation. "You can build the most fancy skyscrapers, modern, artistic looking buildings, but you can't forget to put in the toilet. There is no illusion about all these dreamy, misty-eyed things. You put that crap-house...