Word: conductors
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...plates up like mutes and blew. The string section looked like errant students assigned to the back of the room to repeat the same musical sentence at least 25 times. That was just about the case (see below). High on a ramp, the strings were lined up facing Assistant Conductor David Gilbert in the right rear corner of the stage. He was only one of four conductors at work. At times, James Chambers led the brass and some percussion, Larry Newland the clarinets, flutes and a vibraphone. When all hell broke loose-during an evocation of the Apocalypse-Supreme Maestro...
Died. Alexander Semmler, 76, composer, pianist and conductor for the Columbia Broadcasting System; of a heart attack; in Kingston, N.Y. Semmler composed romantic music for the concert hall, as well as for hundreds of radio and television shows. As a pianist, he was best known for his radio broadcasts of Beethoven and Chopin...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra's final performance of the season features Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, Piston's Flute Concerto, and Beethoven's Symphony No. 7. With James Yannatos, conductor and violinst, Doriot A Dwyer, flutist, and Luise Vosgerchian, pianist. Sanders Theater. 8:30 pm. $2, $1.50 for students and senior citizens. For info...
Brahms: The Four Symphonies (Vienna Philharmonic, Karl Böhm conductor, Deutsche Grammophon; 4 LPs); (Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink conductor. Philips; 4 LPs). Both Böhm and Haitink are generally thought of as orthodox conductors, interested in Brahms' Brahms rather than their Brahms. Yet how different these interpretations are. Böhm almost seems schizoid about these essentially well-adjusted symphonies, as though he could not make up his mind whether the dreamy, expansive Furtwängler or the lean, surging Toscanini were right. No such problems with Haitink. His Brahms bristles with muscle and the knowledge...
Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake (London Symphony Orchestra, Andre Previn conductor, Angel; 3 LPs). Previn herewith completes his cycle of the three great Tchaikovsky full-length ballet scores. As with his The Nutcracker and Sleeping Beauty, he is always conscious of the ingenious nature of the composer's orchestrations, yet never tries to overcome the music's essential dance quality with virtuoso orchestral tricks. A delightful album, and by far the best Swan Lake on the market. William Bender