Word: conductors
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...music. "The whole country is up in arms on the side of Mendelssohn or Schoenberg!" he said. As critical pressure mounted, the orchestra announced a compromise: it would give an extra free performance of the Schoenberg Violin Concerto to all holders of subscription tickets. Even with Zeitlin and Czech Conductor Karel Ancerl donating their services, as they offered to do, the concert would cost I.P.O. $5,000 to put on. "But it will be worth it," said Philharmonic Spokesman Wolfgang Lewy, "just to see how many people will turn out. Besides, the orchestra has an intellectual responsibility to play modern...
Five young string players stayed up all night in a Manhattan hotel room playing Schubert and Brahms, the grumbling of the management to no avail. The next morning, along with half a hundred others, they assembled at Carnegie Hall for a rehearsal with Conductor-Violinist Alexander ("Sasha") Schneider. "It's not warm enough," said Schneider after a few bars, and he was not referring to Carnegie's central heating. That afternoon, they were all downtown at The New School rehearsing chamber music. "Your pizzicato sounds terribly dry," complained Violinist Felix Galimir to a group in one classroom...
...music-hall format in which the Standwells excel has attracted a number of well-known admirers, among them Conductor Leonard Bernstein, Duo-pianists Gold and Fizdale, and Sir John Gielgud. Perhaps the highest professional compliment the Standwells ever received was from Director-Choreographer Jerome Robbins. While experimenting with repertory theater in 1967, Robbins bought out the theater one night and invited his cast. He had been impressed by a puppet performance of a scene from Romeo and Juliet; that evening, he asked Peschka and Murdock to repeat the scene, leaving out the words but explaining their puppets' actions...
Berlioz: Les Troyens; 5 LPs (Philips). Berlioz' grandest achievement recreated for the first time on records by his greatest current interpreter, Conductor Colin Davis...
...trait he symbolizes to everyone, however, is freedom-his own freedom as an artist, all men's freedom to live their own lives. Beethoven's loftiest hymn to that core symbol is Fidelio, which today has a special pertinence to those European countries, as Austrian Conductor Karl Böhm puts it, "that experienced foreign occupation and domination within the recent past." Thus it was thoroughly proper that the Met's new Fidelio was entrusted largely to Europeans, Böhm included...