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Rumbling Thunder. Conductor Robert Craft and Director Bodo Igesz made the most of the fact that Cardillac is swifter and more dramatic than Hin demith's later operas. The elements cooperated too: distant thunder rumbled over the Rio Grande Valley as a vengeful Paris mob killed Cardillac, and through the wide opening at the rear of the stage, the near-capacity audience of 1,100 could see lightning flickering above the blue Jemez Mountains. Hin demith's complex melodies were traced with clarity and polish by a well-schooled, predominantly American cast, notably Baritone John Reardon, whose demented...
deeboop, "Diddlidong, sboop," dee, sang the tong, boopeepee-sweater-clad conductor to the orchestra. Then, raising his baton, he said: "Now - again...
Frowning, the musicians tried again to make all the diddlidongs and sboops in German Composer Hans Werner Henze's In Memoriam: Die Weisse Rose sound the way the conductor said they should. And the conductor was in a position to know. It was Henze himself, rehearsing for the first of two concerts of his works last week in Hopkins Center on the campus of Dartmouth Col lege in Hanover...
...quilt depicts Harriet Tubman (1820-1913), the escaped slave who became the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad and earned the title of "the Moses of her people." It is not so well known that she was also one of the more than 400,000 Negroes who took part one way or another in the Civil War. Commanding some 300 Union troops, she in 1863 led a highly successful and much-imitated foray into Confederate territory, freeing almost 800 slaves, driving the enemy inland, and inflicting losses estimated in the millions. An official dispatch at the time stated...
...Israeli violinist, has already made an impressive name for himself in the concert circuit. This is his recording debut, and it confirms his growing prestige. He manages to make Prokofiev's percussive, rather frantic concerto sing, and his considerate understanding of Sibelius' darkly sad Romanticism is powerful. Conductor Erich Leinsdorf's Boston Symphony gives Perlman rich support...