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...Without (Music)-Introduces a perfectionist conductor with a twelve-tone name-Sergiu Celibidache-but without a country, an orchestra, or a recording contract to call...
...Germany's press and television are strong, free, and outspokenly critical. Hardly anyone advocates extremist solutions for anything. The army bears little resemblance to its goose-stepping ancestor. It is a citizen force, and most of its members are self-conscious in what are often derided as bus-conductor uniforms; indeed, most German bus conductors look more like soldiers than the soldiers...
...such an offbeat opener? "Because," explains Cindy, "we wanted to wake up cultural interests here, not just put them to sleep with the same old safe arias." In transporting Julius Caesar into the 20th century, Conductor Nicola Rescigno, who was imported from the Dallas Civic Opera with Producer Lawrence Kelly, compressed the unwieldy 51-hour libretto into three hours and, to allow for the inclusion of ballet sequences, added several numbers judiciously borrowed from other Handel operas...
Worth the Labor. That the Czechs heard Celibidache at all was no small achievement. A man of passionate convictions who "would rather starve" than give an imperfect performance, Celibidache has become an artist in self-imposed exile. While other guest conductors accept three rehearsals as sufficient preparation for a concert, Celibidache demands at least ten. He has been known, for example, to spend six rehearsals perfecting Webern's Variations for Orchestra, a work that lasts less than six minutes. The musicians who have worked under him agree that the result is worth all the painstaking labor. Says Cellist Gregor...
Last week, winding up the tour with three concerts in Leningrad, the Cleveland Orchestra had scored one of the biggest successes in the history of the cultural-exchange program. There were still five weeks of concertizing in Western Europe yet to come. But as Conductor Szell exclaimed: "What more could...