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Kirchner's Brahms was even more impressive. From the very beginning of the great Fourth Symphony, the conductor proved himself a master of nuance, varying his tempos flexibly. The tragic Andante moderato, with its famous Phrygian modality, was a gem. Opening furiously, the third movement, Allegro giocoso, joked only in its use of the triangle. The concluding Passacaglia, Allegro energico e passionato, was just that...
...Santa Barbara, Calif., to raise hosannas to Soprano Lotte Lehmann on her 80th birthday. It was the sort of occasion that called forth a telegram of congratulations from West German Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger and commanded the presence of such votaries as Tenor Lauritz Melchior, Actress Judith Anderson and Conductor Zubin Mehta. "I am excited and overwhelmed," said Lehmann, who retired 17 years ago but still teaches master classes in voice at the University of California at Santa Barbara. "It is not everyone who can say, 'I have lived exactly as I wanted to live...
...manager, treasurer, director and conductor of the ten-day Easter Music Festival at Salzburg, Herbert von Karajan, 59, takes on the most exhausting one-man musical spectacular since Richard Wagner ran Bayreuth. For the past month, however, the Austrian-born maestro has been flat on his back in hospitals in Munich and Paris, suffering first from flu, which developed into double pneumonia, and more recently from painful and incapacitating nerve inflammations in both legs. Though Von Karajan's recuperative powers are supposed to be second only to those of Lazarus, even his doctors are wondering whether he will...
Actually, cassette recorders have been in use for several years as dictating tools for executives, actors, doctors and language instructors. Today they are widely used in the music world as well. Conductor Herbert von Karajan saved rehearsal time for last year's Salzburg Festival production of Die Walküre by having the singers study cassettes made from his earlier recording of the opera. Mezzo-Soprano Regina Resnik taped a recording of Adriana Lecouvreur on her cassette and is now using it to learn the role she will sing next season...
...that there's much any conductor can do with Carmen, Bizet. for some perverse reason presumably connected with his nationality, insisted on writing French opera at a time when Wagner and Verdi had conclusively proved that the promise of great opera lay elsewhere. Blind to their examples, Bizet wrote six or seven good numbers which have since become standards and filled out the rest of Carmen with tedium and theft. The Second Act quintet is bad imitation Mozart, the Third Act trio bad imitation Rossini, and Micaela's Air good imitation Meverbeer, which is just as bad. Carmen proves Bizet...