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...into Symphony Hall on Sunday night to view the fourth installment of the 1997-'98 BankBoston Celebrity Series, now in its ninth year of bringing world-renowned artists to a city where culture begs to be seen, heard and adored. The Celebrity Series'latest import, Italian music director Daniele Gatti and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, proved itself worthy of adoration...
...ripe age of 37, Daniele Gatti has already established himself as one of the world's foremost classical conductors due to his unabashed physical and emotional freedom of expression in directing his orchestra. Anyone whose career of musical instruction and performance spans nearly three decades should eventually attain such a degree of skill, but it is Gatti's highly visible selfimmersion in his profession that brings him well-deserved distinction. Deemed the foremost conductor of his generation by some, the renowned Italian director had some high expectations to fulfill in his interpretation of Schubert's Symphony No. 8, (the "Unfinished...
...audience in Symphony Hall on Sunday was undoubtedly seeking the "fire and flair" of Gatti's technique promised by the concert program. Like any fire, some smoldering must occur before the flames actually rise. Perhaps it was the amber-suffused ambience of the concert hall, or simply the burden of starting anew in the midst of a frenzied three-week tour that dampened Gatti's artistry in the first piece. Nevertheless, the true focus of the night--the music and its performance by Britain's national orchestra--remained unmistakably passionate...
...these sentiments, he is far from alone. Other impresarios were also harsh in their assessment. "In the Met's place, I would have done exactly the same," said Hugues Gall, newly appointed head of the Paris Opera. "In the 1920s the director of the Met, Gatti-Casazza, used to deal firmly with even greater stars, like Caruso. But Caruso wasn't as crazy as Miss Battle seems...
...Straus & Giroux. "If the book isn't published until 1993, will the general's name still mean anything to people?" Farrar, Straus is playing it safer by bringing out a quickie biography, In the Eye of the Storm: The Life of General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, co-written by Claudio Gatti and New York Times reporter Roger Cohen, due in August...