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...instruction book and taught herself to play. Upon graduation, having become a Kincaid admirer through recordings, she auditioned for him, and was promptly enrolled as his pupil at the Curtis Institute of Music. Four years later she landed her first job: second flutist with the Kansas City Philharmonic. The conductor, Efrem Kurtz, not only took her with him as first flutist in 1948 when he began the reorganization of the Houston Symphony Orchestra, but in 1955 he also married...
...composer's comic masterpiece, a work in which the stuff of childish fantasy is transformed breathtakingly into the best kind of adult fun and games. In the title role, Spain's Teresa Berganza sings with a bravura coloratura style that (among mezzos) only Marilyn Home might match. Conductor Claudio Abbado not only has opted for a newly cleaned-up version of the score (with spurious arias discarded, and some of Rossini's original instrumentation restored), but has produced a performance totally dedicated to the opera's unceasing wit, sane dramatics and will-o'-the-wisp...
Mozart, Violin Concertos Nos. 1 to 5, Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola, K. 364 (and other works) (David Oistrakh, soloist and conductor, Berlin Philharmonic; Angel, 4 LPs, $23.92). The riddle of the Sphinx is nothing compared with the mystery of Mozart interpretation. How else explain the existence of so many otherwise great men of music (Horowitz, Stokowski, to name but two) among the ranks of failed Mozarteans? David Oistrakh is emphatically not one of them. His playing (that curvaceous tone especially) has a touch of the romantic, but not enough to tarnish the piquant bloom of youth that imbues...
...workmanlike job, hampered by Dernesch's inability to make Isolde alive enough so that her death is significant. The record is also marred by the cavernous, "first-row-of-the-balcony" acoustics that Karajan seems to enjoy these days. The 20-year-old Tristan, starring Kirsten Flagstad and Conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler, incomparable and still available in excellent mono, remains the set to have...
Elisabeth Furtwangler, widow of the famous conductor, Withheld Furtwangler, will speak about her husband's life and work at 3 p.m., Sunday, December 10, in the Lowell House Junior Common Room...