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...PLAYHOUSE (NET, 8-9:30 p.m.).** Alan Bates stars as Richard Wagner in The Siegfried Idyll, an account of Wagner's love affair with the wife of his best friend, Conductor Hans...
...York's Metropolitan Opera. The week's musical highlight was undoubtedly Mozart's Don Giovanni, which was performed on the gala May night in 1869 when the Emperor Franz Josef presided over the opening of the huge sandstone operatic palace. In the pit last week was Conductor Josef Krips, who revived Don in 1945 in the grim days immediately after the war, when the company took temporary refuge in the Theater an der Wien...
...festival tested musical fortitude as well as memories. For performances of Offenbach's ballet Le Papillon, which has never been given outside the Paris Opèra, Butler teachers and students spent hours reconstructing the orchestral parts from a copy of the original conductor's score. "I'm going to die," exclaimed Indianapolis Symphony Conductor Izler Solomon in mock horror when he was handed the 435 pages of Paderewski's Symphony in B Minor, which took nearly seven years to compose. Solomon cut the thunderous, brass-filled nationalistic epic to a manageable 33 minutes and turned...
...fact, the farewell was not really the most final of finales. Bernstein will continue to direct televised children's concerts with the orchestra and serve as a guest conductor, and the Philharmonic has honored him for life with the quaint title of Laureate Conductor. Even so, his ten-year tenure as music director was a particularly personal and successful relationship. The first American-born conductor to head a front-rank U.S. orchestra, he was chosen to succeed the late Dimitri Mitropoulos in 1958; since then, subscriptions rose from 9,886 to 25,570, and concerts at Lincoln Center...
When he took over as conductor in chief of the Houston Symphony in 1967, Composer-Pianist Andre Previn joyfully exclaimed: "At last I am doing exactly what I want to do!" Now he can look for something else that he wants to do. Orchestra President Maurice Hirsch abruptly announced last week that Previn's contract will not be renewed. Hirsch indicated that the orchestra's sponsors were disgruntled over Previn's outside commitments, notably his romance with the London Symphony Orchestra. Another problem seems to have been Previn's mod, madcap ways. His romps in blue...