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...Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti conductor, London.) As one would expect, Solti's Bolero is a knockout. But the real interest here is the Debussy. The years have given Solti a welcome relaxation, and he is now getting around to the swirling softness of French musical impressionism. There are no mists in Solti's Debussy. The sky is clear blue over his La Mer, but how shimmering those eddies of string tone, how thundering the waves of brass. Afternoon of a Faun may just be the most sensual on records...
...revival, She Loves Me has the faded fragrance of a pressed flower. The musical is shamelessly romantic, head over heels in love with love. Amalia (Madeline Kahn) and Georg (Barry Bostwick) are secretly lonely-heart pen pals who have corresponded ardently for a year. Neither happens to have given the other a clue to the fact that they are fellow clerks in the same Budapest parfumerie. Ecstatic about each other in print, they are rather allergic to each other in person. When will the epistolary lovers discover the secret behind their secret? With all the fine talents caroling and cavorting...
...President; in fact, he rooted openly for Gerald Ford during the American election campaign. But Schmidt's discomfort with Carter and his new diplomatic style only explains in part the suddenly acid relations between Bonn and Washington. Last week German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher and Defense Minister Georg Leber flew to Washington for several days of hard discussion on three policy disputes that divide the two allies. They returned to West Germany in a somewhat better mood than they had arrived in Washington with, but without having resolved the problems...
...first performance of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra draws raves, with special praise going to concertmaster Joseph Silverstein, first cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, and conductor Georg Solti. The one undergraduate in HRO, who asked to remain anonymous, said afterwards, "It was a great honor to play on a college orchestra of this quality...
WAGNER: DIE MEISTERSINGER (London. 5 LPs). Sir Georg Solti and an eloquent cast-notably Britain's Norman Bailey as a wise and warm Sachs-present the finest recorded performance yet of this operatic masterpiece...