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Nearly every seat was taken at Tucker's funeral, held on the Met stage. The only previous funerals in the Met (in its old, Diamond Horseshoe home before the move to Lincoln Center) were those of Conductor Leopold Damrosch 90 years ago and General Manager Heinrich Conried 66 years...
...both these talents in abundance. Indeed, it is doubtful whether any harpsichordist now performing can match his particular combination of formal restraint, interpretive flair and sheer energy. Certainly that was the case last week as Kipnis made a successful New York Philharmonic debut playing two diverse works under Conductor Pierre Boulez-Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 and Falla's Harpsichord Concerto...
ACCUSE LEONARD Bernstein of anything; you have to admit he is a great performer. He is one of the best conductors of our time, a popular composer, and surely the best known musician. A generation of amateur music lovers got their start with twelve years of nationally televised Young People's Concerts, and Bernstein is still just about the only conductor who can get prime network time for classical music. When he delivered the 1973 Norton Lectures, Harvard didn't have a theater large enough for the crowds of musicians and non-musicians who wanted to attend...
...comparison is unfortunate. Bernstein's lectures are a deeply personal statement, infused with the conductor's considerable charm and delivered with humor and sincerity. But it is hard to avoid feeling deceived by Bernstein's performance. He is careless with words and with ideas, and in the end he is always willing to sacrifice accuracy for the sake of the grand gesture...
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring (Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti conducting; London, $6.98). Solti's way with Berlioz, Wagner, Mahler and Strauss stamps him as a Romantic and post-Romantic conductor without superior. This megatonic Rite now confirms his mastery of the contemporary idiom. Where Pierre Boulez etches in cold objectivity, Solti paints in swirling shapes and colors. The effect is electrifying...