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...Dada classic Four Saints hangs onto the fringe of the repertoire by virtue of its pigeons-on-the-grass-alas text by Stein and Thomson's proto- minimalist, oompah-pah score. Even so modest a renown is likely to elude Lord Byron, just given a handsome first recording by conductor James Bolle leading the Monadnock Festival Orchestra and a cast of mostly unknowns...
...performances, by conductor Roland Bader and the Krakow Philharmonic and the inestimable Kronos Quartet, are excellent. And for those looking to recapture the magic of Symphony No. 3, the delicious trio of miniatures, In the Old Style, is just the ticket at a tenth the length...
Each Vice President copes in his own way with playing second fiddle in an orchestra where first fiddle not only is the conductor but owns the concert hall. Gore employs humor (last month he gave Clinton a cardboard cutout of himself to take on vacation) and his innate best-student-in-the-class properties to make the most of his No. 2 role. As a result, Gore is rising above the usual stature of the office. Even Bill Kristol, Dan Quayle's former chief of staff, thinks Gore has "done pretty well. Maybe Democratic Vice Presidents get more clout, maybe...
...lasted a little longer in a life that was lived harder and faster than most (mood: appassionato; tempo: allegro con brio), Leonard Bernstein would have turned 75 this week. But the polymath pianist, conductor, composer, television personality, Harvard man, Broadway baby and quintessential New Yorker died in 1990, leaving a hole in the fabric of American musical life that many have found irreparable. In the three years since Bernstein's death, sales of his records have doubled, his compositions have started to win greater respect, and his legend has waxed. It's almost as if the great man had never...
...exuberance and serious fun was so contagious that he still elicits that reaction even in his absence," she says. "He just seems to generate a celebratory impulse from everybody." But some people find the spectacle suspiciously premature. "Unfortunately, he is being commercially exploited right now," notes another Lenny, conductor Leonard Slatkin. "There is a lot of effort and time and money being put into keeping the legend alive. I find it all a little bit sad." Says Ernest Fleischmann, executive director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic: "Bernstein's memory is best served by his music and his recordings...