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...role of the wealthy burgher Ford. In the second act Ford sang his famous monologue E sogne? a realta? and shortly made his exit. As the orchestra launched into the music of the act's second scene, the audience began chanting an unfamiliar name: "Tibbett! Tibbett! Tib-bett!" Conductor Tullio Serafin waved his orchestra to silence and through the gold curtain stepped a slim young man with a putty-shaped nose to acknowledge an ovation that stopped the opera for 20 minutes...
Colin Davis learned his trade by retiring to his London flat, beating out rhythms to phonograph records, and casting furtive glances at his image reflected in a picture on the wall. He had only one professional conducting lesson, learned the conductor's motions by scanning instruction books...
...last fortnight Colin Davis, 32, was named principal conductor of the Sadler's Wells Opera and invited by the ailing Sir Thomas Beecham, 81, to assist him at the Glyndebourne Festival. Said Beecham, majestically speaking of himself in the third person: "Sir Thomas hopes that un der these conditions nothing untoward will happen, and it gives him great pleasure to initiate a collaboration which, he trusts, will continue for many years." The appointment confirmed what Eng lish critics have been saying for more than a year: Davis is the most promising con ducting talent to appear in England since...
...Conductor Watanabe is the son of a Finnish mother and a Japanese father who became a Lutheran clergyman. A child prodigy on the violin, he studied conducting at Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music. Unabashedly trading on the influence of his father-in-law, Japan's then Premier Ichiro Hatoyama, Watanabe founded the Japan Philharmonic in 1956, staffed it with young Japanese musicians and one American, Concertmaster Broadus Erie, founder of Manhattan's New Music String...
Some of the best recordings of contemporary American music these days are being made by a conductor who is not an American and by an orchestra not resident in the U.S. Akeo Watanabe, 41-year-old conductor of the Japan Philharmonic, is his nation's most gifted interpreter of modern scores; for Composers Recordings, Inc. he has now conducted eight modern American works by composers ranging from Aaron Copland to Halsey Stevens, giving them deft and assured readings...