Word: conductors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ANTONIA: A PORTRAIT OF THE WOMAN. A loving record of the life of Antonia Brico, a symphony conductor scarred but not humbled by the problem of being a woman and an artist in America. This beautifully fashioned documentary by Jill Godmilow and Judy Collins never bows to rhetoric or pity...
After the intermission, the orchestra surprised the audience with its vigorous performance of the Eighth Symphony. Hugh Wolff once again proved to be a conscientious conductor, sensibly placing music before histrionics. The orchestra was well-disciplined and seemed well-rehearsed. But one could not forget that the Bach Society is, after all, a student organization. While the forte tutti sections were played with gusto, the subtleties of phrasing, slight accentuations, and nuances in dynamics were never quite made apparent, for fear of sacrificing precision and ensemble. This was also a problem in the pianissimo sections and during some...
...Mikado should be good, I guess--the Gilbert and Sullivan Players' productions usually are, and in this case the conductor is also nominally a Crimson photographer, although he admittedly hasn't taken a picture in about two years. Opens tonight at the Agassiz...
...same way. At 70, the unpredictable Ukrainian-born pianist was staging another "historic return"-his first New York performance in six years and the first classical recital ever presented in the eight-year-old Metropolitan Opera House. Jackie Onassis, Peter Falk and Mikhail Baryshnikov were there. So were Conductor Herbert von Karajan and many other noted musicians like Isaac Stern, Daniel Barenboim and Eugene Istomin...
...performance was led adroitly by the veteran conductor Leonard de Paur, who first gained fame in the 1940s as leader of the De Paur Infantry Chorus. The women-Dramatic Soprano Juanita Waller (Aurore) of Pittsburgh, Pa., and Mezzo Barbara Conrad (Clothilde) of Pittsburg, Texas-provided most of the vocal excitement. Waller has a pearl-luscious voice, and her time along the European operatic trail (Bremen, Düsseldorf, Naples) has obviously been well spent. Conrad, that rare operatic find, a truly sexy mezzo, scored her biggest success to date last spring singing Carmen at the Houston Spring Opera Festival...