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As Kubelik's many Deutsche Grammophon recordings (notably Janacek and Mahler) show, he has brought the Bavarian orchestra to unprecedented polish by combining a Bohemian exuberance with the best kind of Germanic restraint and architectural proportion. Both should be most useful at the Met.
"God damn and blast my soul!" the Pre-Raphaelite painter Ford Madox Brown used to warn his grandson. "I will turn you straight out of my house if you go in for any kind of commercial life." But he added: "Beggar yourself rather than refuse assistance to anyone whose genius...
THE PANTHEON edition containing the first four long plays and five one-act plays, is the first volume of a projected complete English edition of all of Brecht's writings. It is based on the German Gesammelte Worke of Brecht, and contains variant readings for all the plays, as well...
With such kinetic qualities, Ogdon could easily have gone on to a profitable life of barnstorming the world with war-horse concertos. Instead, after sharing first prize with Vladimir Ashkenazy in Moscow's 1962 Tchaikovsky Competition, he became an evangelist for music that few other major pianists would touch...
Most fairy-tales are parodies of history (knight-errantery, courtly love, etc.); Something for Everyone, through parody of the fairy-tale, slyly parodies history. It unmasks in a Bavarian setting the rise of a parvenn power-maniac, played by Michael York, as a cool mastery of perversion and murder. Angela...