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...chamber concert, a five-o'clock poetry reading and then a play at the Seven O'Clock Theater. Ballet or opera was the choice of enchantments for the evening-Choreographer John Cranko's intensely dramatic Romeo and Juliet, the swirling color of Yugoslav folk dances, or Conductor Thomas Schippers' sonorous rendition of Verdi's Otello...
...they would rather have cash in the pants pocket than 10% off on the pants. Moreover, they increasingly find the "clerical discount" demeaning. "I used to use a railroad discount," says the Rev. George Reck, pastor of Houston's Zion Lutheran Church, "but I always felt the conductor was saying to himself, 'Here's another chiseler.'" And chiseling can work two ways, suggests Father George McCormick of Trinity Episcopal Church in Miami: "When I'm offered a 10% dis count, I feel that the price has been jacked up 20% anyway...
Misplaced Aria. What few realized was the extent of Landon's "a la Haydn" restoration: fully one-third of the opera was pure Landon. So skillful was the reweaving job that even Director Werner Duggelin and Conductor Alberto Erede were taken in. Questioned about the major aria, "Quanti diversi sentimenti nel cuor!" (How many emotions are in my breast!) in the second act, Duggelin unhesitatingly replied: "Oh, that is Haydn, beyond any doubt. Of course, I know Landon did a job of restoration. But as a professional, one knows what and where, of course." Echoed Erede: "That is Haydn...
Robert Russell Bennett, L.H.D., composer and conductor. He has been known to produce as many as eighty pages of orchestration in a single...
...home. Ludwig also bombarded the 51-year-old composer with tender letters vowing eternal devotion. Wagner, a short, haggard-faced man, was careful not to alienate his doting benefactor, but he had other irons in the fire. Immediately on his arrival in Munich he asked that his close friend, Conductor Hans von Bülow, be brought from Berlin to conduct Tristan. While he valued Von Bülow's talents, he was even more anxious to secure those of Cosima, the conductor's wife (and daughter of Composer Franz Liszt), who had been Wagner's secret...