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...When I was a boy," the guest conductor told the orchestra, "there were four very good young violinists here in San Francisco. One was Isaac Stern, one was Ruggiero Ricci, one was Yehudi Menuhin, and the fourth was Joe Alioto. I know what happened to the first three-but what ever became of Joe Alioto?" Among other things, he grew up to be mayor of San Francisco. Now he was before the San Francisco Symphony, telling jokes on himself and preparing to lead the orchestra through the opening number of a benefit performance. The mayor, who still practices his violin...
Sweden's Birgit Nilsson is the world's reigning Wagnerian soprano. Austria's Herbert von Karajan has no superior as a conductor of the Ring cycle. Alas, two great melodies do not always pro duce a single pleasing harmony. Ever since she began singing under his demanding baton, Miss Nilsson's relation ship with the Salzburg-born maestro has become increasingly sour. Among other things, she has been irked by his insistence on unusually time-consuming rehearsals and is not too keen about his dark, brooding lighting effects, which often keep the singers in the shadows...
...Orchestra (HRO) will tour three cities this month with a program of Harvard-composed music, HRO conductor James D. Yannatos said yesterday...
REQUIEM, K. 626 (Telefunken). Mozart's liturgical music is tricky to interpret. But Karl Richter, an organist and harpsichordist as well as conductor, creates a performance that combines operatic grandeur in the Dies Irae with the religious awe attending death that is heralded by the sepulchral drumbeats at the close of the Agnus Dei. The four first-class soloists (Maria Stader, soprano; Hertha Töpper, alto; John van Kesteren, tenor; Karl-Christian Kohn, bass) enter into the spirit of their conductor's classical conception: they never struggle to achieve Wagnerian eminence of tone but modestly blend into...
...moment of wrath, Hamburg State Opera Impresario Rolf Liebermann once exclaimed: "It's the directors who ruin everything. It's never the composer, conductor or singers. The directors are just so many dilettanti who don't know their job. Their only concern is their own vanity...