Word: georges
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro (London, 4 LPs). Matchless Mozartean Sir Georg Solti leads the London Philharmonic and a cast including Kiri Te Kanawa in a sparkling reading...
Since then, Nordic designers have given every European style their distinct mark. Denmark's Georg Jensen's silver and opal Dragonfly brooch (1904) and fellow Dane Erik Magnussen's Grasshopper brooch (1907) of silver and coral are unmistakably art nouveau. They are also unmistakably Scandinavian. Like virtually all the objects in this exhibition, they show the patient toil brought to bear on stubborn, natural materials. This is what Frank Lloyd Wright called "organic" design...
...Pavarotti and has the artistic temperament to match. Banchet was trained in the great restaurants of France, including that of Paul Bocuse, the high priest of la nouvelle cuisine. He commands his array of convection ovens, cannibal-size stockpots and giant food processors with the same authority that Sir Georg Solti displays when conducting the Chicago Symphony. "It's like an orchestra," Banchet explains, "where every piece must play its part...
...Georg Laschen (Bruno Ganz) shares the moral dilemma of all journalists: how can one remain a bystander, a mere observer of violence and injustice? He has urges to get involved, to "do something" about the war he is recording. But his self-preoccupation prevents any political action. His journey to Lebanon began as an escape from a difficult marriage, and the country remains a kind of exotic, horrific Disneyland in which he attempts to lose himself...
...would be incorrect to say the Boston Symphony is the best in the U.S., or even that there is a Big Five any more. The Cleveland Orchestra, under Lorin Maazel, has become the most beautifully balanced American ensemble, with the richest, warmest sound. The sheer virtuosity of Sir Georg Solti's Chicago Symphony is without peer domestically, whatever Solti's interpretive excesses. The other two members of the Big Five are the Philadelphia Orchestra, once magnificent but facing an uncertain future in the hands of its new music director, Riccardo Muti, and the New York Philharmonic, a temperamental...