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DIED. Alfred Franz Wallenstein, 84, the first nationally renowned U.S.-born conductor, who raised the Los Angeles Philharmonic to the top ranks as its music director from 1943 to 1956; in New York City. A child prodigy who played cello on the vaudeville circuit to help pay for his music studies, he conducted his Sinfonietta on the Mutual Network from...
Moore has finished Romantic Comedy, based on Bernard Slade's Broadway play, which will be released in October, and he is now working on Unfaithfully Yours, a remake of the Preston Sturges comedy, in which he portrays a famous conductor, convinced that his beautiful young wife (Nastassia Kinski) is having an affair behind his back. Five years ago, Moore was a well-known British comic who had a small American public; today he is one of Hollywood's top box-office draws, cuddling to his own bosom a salary of $2½ million for his latest picture...
DIED. Don Costa, 57, music conductor and arranger, whose versatile professionalism was relied on by top singers of the past three decades, including Frank Sinatra and Barbra Streisand, in concerts, radio, television and more than 240 hit records; of a heart attack; in New York City...
...many others in the film, is arbitrary. Wagner's opera is merely a pretext for the director, a frame on which to hang a murky, convoluted and, finally, not very original cultural thesis. The performance is led with surprising authority and eloquence by the little-known Swiss conductor Armin Jordan and features splendid singing by Tenor Reiner Goldberg as Parsifal and Mezzo Yvonne Minton as Kundry...
...mirror; tearing off the patch that covers his lost eye, Wotan searches for his soul and finds only an emptiness that foreshadows the twilight of the gods. For all its mythic dimensions, the Ring is basically a family tragedy, just the thing for the intimacy of the small screen. Conductor Pierre Boulez presides over a transparent reading of the score that is as untraditional in its light texture as Chéreau's staging; no wonder the first audiences thought the French had sacked the Festspielhaus...