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Natural Rhythm. If anyone can do it, Solti (pronounced Shol-tee) is the man. Currently music director of London's Covent Garden, and a frequent guest conductor at the Metropolitan Opera and the New York Philharmonic, Solti last week concluded a three-week guest engagement with the Chicago Symphony prior to the formal takeover in September. His final concert-devoted entirely to Mahler's Second Symphony-demonstrated the kind of technical brilliance and interpretive sagacity that have made him one of the world's half-dozen best conductors. The audience gave Solti one of the biggest ovations...
Winter-grown green peppers, grapes and watermelons from Lebanon now reach dinner tables in London almost as rapidly as in Beirut. They get to Covent Garden, where the melons fetch 50?, v. 8? in a Lebanese bazaar, by means of cargo planes and because of the sagacity of a 40-year-old Lebanese with some slick trading talents...
Died. Tullio Serafin, 89, Italian conductor of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera from 1924 to 1934; of a heart attack; in Rome. For half a century Serafin conducted at Milan's La Scala, the Met, London's Covent Garden, and Paris' Opéra. A great interpreter of Verdi and Puccini, he also championed such U.S. composers as Deems Taylor and Louis Gruenberg...
...nonvoting shares to em ployees, amounting to about 15% of their salaries. Through councils in each store and a company-wide central council, a dialogue is kept going between management and "partners." The company also spends some $500,000 a year on cultural subsidies (half-price tickets to Covent Garden and the Old Vic) and such perks as clubs (30, from gardening to judo) and low-cost holidays in the company-owned Brownsea Castle at Poole Harbor...
Britain's balletomanes were aghast at the news from Covent Garden. Rudolf Nureyev's partner in two productions of Romeo and Juliet this October will not be Dame Margot Fonteyn, 48, his matchless partner of the past five years, but a comparatively dewy Covent Garden ballerina from Rhodesia, Merle Park, 29. Could it be that the most brilliant team in modern ballet will be unhitched at last? "A big lie!" stormed Rudi. He and Dame Margot have occasionally danced with others in the past as schedules demanded. As Covent Gar den sped forward with reassurances that Rudi...