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Actually, by the time the Vienna-bred Korngold landed in Hollywood in 1934, he had behind him an astounding career as a musical Wunderkind in Europe. When he was a teenager, his works were performed by Pianist Artur Schnabel and Conductor Bruno Walter. In 1921, when Korngold was 24, his third opera, Die Tote Stadt (The Dead City), was staged at New York's Metropolitan Opera. In the leading role of Marietta was Soprano Maria Jeritza, making her Met debut. The American public took to Jeritza but not to Korngold, and after a few years it forgot...
...Conductor disappears down the aisle, Distressing lack of concern for this modern marvel of a competitor...
Renaissance Lamentations including works of Byrd, Brumel, and Palestrina; Harvard Glee Club, F. John Adams, conductor; St Paul's Church...
...indomitably and infectiously humorous. But that is part of a complex cerebral nature. Because she is always thoroughly prepared and as knowledgeable about any particular opera as they, her colleagues tend to compliment her in the light of their own specialty. "She thinks of the composite work like a conductor," says Thomas Schippers, who will conduct Siege. "Her mind works like a director's mind," says Sarah Caldwell, who has directed Sills for years at the Opera Company of Boston...
Even before it opened in 1962, the late conductor George Szell pronounced Philharmonic Hall, the first building in Manhattan's Lincoln Center, a disaster. "Tear it down and start over!" he cried. But that was unthinkable. The house had everything money ($19.7 million) could buy. It was an austere, stately structure of travertine and glass. There were comfortable plush chairs and, most significant musically, 106 panels suspended from the ceiling to diffuse sound waves for maximum - it was hoped - acoustical excellence. They did not do the job. The sound was dry, weak in bass, lacking in focus...