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Tchalkovsky's Variations on a Rococo Theme, Schubert's Wanderer Fantasy as orchestrated by Liszt, and the Brahms Violin Concerto; Yo-Yo Ma, cello, Richard Kogan, piano, Lynn Chang, violin. The St. Lowell-in-the-Fields Orchestra, Gerald Moshell, conductor; Lowell House Dining Hall; two performances...
Bach's Mass in B-Minor; Harvard Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, F. John Adams, conductor, Sanders...
This version of The Siege of Corinth, pieced together by conductor Thomas Schippers from 35 varying scores of the opera and 2800 pages of original manuscript, is seamless and vibrant, and adds a rare tragic work by Rossini to the stock of his popular comic operas. Schippers is apparently as good at sewing musical segments together as Rossini, who constantly borrowed from old operas to write new ones, and who was so cavalier about detail that if a page of his manuscript fell to the floor while he was composing, he'd write a new one from memory, being...
Sills has stressed that she bears no grudges and is having the time of her life in this production, Diaz says, "She's very warm, has a terrific sense of humor, and is wonderful to work with." The first dress rehearsal, five days before the premiere, was chaotic--conductor Schippers was already exasperated, snapping angry commands at the musicians: Diaz, whose cape was falling off, was trying in vain not to trip on it; there were mistakes in blocking; an 'extra' kept dropping his spear with an audible clatter; and Sills handled it all by laughing. The more tired...
...ridiculous." He was tense in the dressing room as he explained. "A tempo is not right, which makes it uncomfortable. We'll have to iron it out because if not, well, what is the point of doing it?" Asked whether he has to fight with the conductor about that, he laughed exasperatedly. "Not fight, but you have to convince him that you need help." Has he ever had a big fight with a conductor over issues like this? "No, no, just little fights, little fights," he said, as he lit another cigarette and steamed agitatedly back and forth. Monday night...