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Though obviously silly, an August vacation was still chic. At St. Tropez alone, Premier Georges Pompidou, Conductor Herbert von Karajan, Artist Bernard Buffet and Author Franchise Sagan were dining and dancing. Brigitte Bardot arrived, then left when she could not find a maid. There were so many of the young, beautiful people from Paris that the town was being called St. Tropez-des-Près. In Antibes, Pablo Picasso good-humoredly cavorted for tourist cameras at the Restaurant Roger...
...repertory ranged from far-in to farthest out. In a 50-min. work aptly titled Aeon, a blinding flash of magnesium flares stirred Cunningham's ten-member troupe into an otherworldly, slow-motion ballet. In the orchestra pit, Conductor Cage slowly raised and lowered his arms like a railroad signal, while his two-man orchestra conjured a percussive nightmare with such ear-splitting accents as a nail file rasped across a metal music stand. When the sound system shorted and buzzed harshly for several minutes, the audience accepted it as part of the show...
...peak of Mehta's career to date was his selection as lead-off conductor at Salzburg, where he has appeared for three straight years. With feet planted firmly apart, lithe, suavely handsome Mehta led the Berlin Philharmonic with driving energy through a varied program of works by Stravinsky, Mozart and Brahms, writhing and swaying, from heels to tiptoes, with the ebb and flow of the rhythms. Disdaining a score, he commanded a clean, precise beat with slashing strokes of his baton, winding his arm behind his head for broad, sweeping gestures like a pitcher unfurling a fastball, while...
Brainwashed. Whatever other talents he may have, Mehta is a natural, consummate performer. Back in North America, where he serves as conductor of both the Los Angeles and Montreal symphony orchestras, committee dowagers and women's magazines purr kittenishly about his "brutal charm" and "catnip gaze...
...first problem was getting the "echoes" to come in on time. If each conductor waited to hear his cue, there would be too much of a time lag and resulting chaos. To make it come out right, the conductors had to learn to get their orchestras going just the right number of beats before they heard their cue. And when that was perfected, there came the problem of achieving the fading effect. Mozart, with probably a small garden in mind, had scored each "orchestra" as a string quartet with two horns. This did not work in Tangle-wood...