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...Vienna, almost everyone who counted in music and the government had shown up for American Conductor Lorin Maazel's long-awaited first performance after taking over as director. Then, 35 minutes into Tannhauser, the lead tenor, East Germany's Reiner Goldberg, dropped his harp and mumbled, "My voice-I can't go on." He then disappeared into the wings, leaving a stunned Venus alone in her grotto...
...when the New York Philharmonic opens its subscription season this week under Conductor Zubin Mehta, it does so with an eagerly sound. Reich orchestral premiere: Tehillim, an infectious, high-spirited laudation set to Hebrew psalms, which begins with the sound of two hands clapping and ends in a full-throated blaze of hallelujahs. For both Reich and the style of which he is a leading representative, the concert will be a cause of celebration. Minimalism, a joyous, exciting-and sometimes maddening-amalgam of influences as disparate as African drumming, the Balinese gamelan and new wave rock, has come uptown...
...Even Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, who led the Four Organs performance at Carnegie Hall, has reservations. "Minimalism still has a lot to come to terms with," he says. "Will it show us dichotomies of human nature and thought that have made good classical music fascinating through the years?" Conductor Mehta, despite his championing of Reich's Tehillim, also sees some limitations. "After all," Mehta says, drawing an analogy to painting, "Seurat and his points didn't go on too long. I don't think it could last...
...different note: "The need for authority is basic. Children need authorities to guide and reassure them. Adults fulfill an essential part of themselves in being authorities; it is one way of expressing care for others." To demonstrate what authority is, Sennett portrays not a politician dominating a crowd but Conductor Pierre Monteux, whose "ease at being in control" was so complete that a raised eyebrow was enough to cue the French horns...
...Conductor Nathan Gottschalk, 66, stands up. He is a stocky, cheerful-looking man in rumpled pants and a short-sleeved shirt who during the school year directs the student orchestra at the State University of New York at Albany. As the rehearsal gets under way, he is asked how his 83 players are doing. He gives a "Who knows?" shrug, like a man who knows very well indeed, and grins happily. "Listen tonight...