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...there were serious flaws in the way conductor Leo Collins used this magnificent choral instrument. Saturday's concert was just short of exciting because Collins' choice of tempos and articulation made the cantatas a little contrived, a little fussy...
...Conductor James Walker assembled a concert program that was sophisticated by anyone's standards. Except for the Sousa-like Emblem of Unity at the beginning, the pieces performed were thoroughly twentieth-century, ranging in date from Kurt Weill's Kleine Dreigroschen-musik (1929) to Dello Joio's Variations on a Medieval Tune...
...Band's major flaw throughout the concert was an amateurish negligence about watching the conductor. There is little one can complain about in Walker's conducting; it is to him that much of the music's vigor and sensitivity of phrasing must be attributed. However, one felt he had to fight to keep the Band at the tempos he wanted...
...cannot attain a really deep expression of a work," says European Conductor Herbert von Karajan, 58, "when someone stages it who does not see with my eyes, hear with my ears, and have my own heart." Which leaves only one man who can meet Karajan's standards for a director of any opera that he conducts: Karajan himself. And so, for the production of Wagner's Die Walküre last week at Salzburg's new Easter Festival, Karajan had no trouble getting both assignments. After all, the creator, financial wizard and guiding spirit of the entire...
...opening-night crowd of 2,000 agreed that Karajan's confidence in Karajan was justified. Director Karajan swept away the clumping athletics and far-out allegory of most recent Walküres. If what was left was often static staging, it was well coordinated with the music, which Conductor Karajan molded superbly. He toned down the singers' usual tendency to bellow and brought out a fresh quality of refinement through subtly shaded dynamics and sensitively modeled phrases. "Chamber music of the soul," rhapsodized one critic, while others looked ahead to the addition of Das Rheingold next year, Siegfried...