Word: conductors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...instruction book and taught herself to play. Upon graduation, having become a Kincaid admirer through recordings, she auditioned for him, and was promptly enrolled as his pupil at the Curtis Institute of Music. Four years later she landed her first job: second flutist with the Kansas City Philharmonic. The conductor, Efrem Kurtz, not only took her with him as first flutist in 1948 when he began the reorganization of the Houston Symphony Orchestra, but in 1955 he also married...
BERLIOZ: BENVENUTO CELLINI (Philips, 4 LPs). Berlioz's first opera is deeply poetic, grandly exuberant and stunningly performed under Conductor Colin Davis...
MAHLER: SYMPHONY NO. 8 (London, 2 LPs). Conductor Georg Solti triumphs in a work that, in emotional scope and array of forces, is a most difficult challenge to recording...
ROSSINI: LA CENERENTOLA (DG, 3 LPs). From Conductor Claudio Abbado comes a stereo recording worthy of Rossini's comic masterpiece...
...workmanlike job, hampered by Dernesch's inability to make Isolde alive enough so that her death is significant. The record is also marred by the cavernous, "first-row-of-the-balcony" acoustics that Karajan seems to enjoy these days. The 20-year-old Tristan, starring Kirsten Flagstad and Conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler, incomparable and still available in excellent mono, remains the set to have...