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...varied but traditional program, including Mozart by Yehudi Menuhin's Festival Orchestra, Bach played on the organ by Munich's Karl Richter, Corelli and Vivaldi by I Musici di Roma, and even a night of Indian music with Sitarist Debabrata Chaudhury and Tabla Virtuoso Sitaram. The highlight of the festival will take place on Sept. 17, when the Orchestre de la Radio Suisse Italienne will present a concert of Mozart and Haydn atop 10,000-ft.-high Diablerets Glacier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Jul. 25, 1969 | 7/25/1969 | See Source »

VERONA (through Aug. 17). Italy's oldest summer opera, now in its 47th year, offers Turandot, Aida and Don Carlo in an acoustically perfect Roman amphitheater. Tenors Carlo Bergonzi and Placido Domingo, Sopranos Birgit Nilsson and Montserrat Caballé highlight the excellent casts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Jul. 25, 1969 | 7/25/1969 | See Source »

Pollock in particular borrowed the surrealists' "automatist" technique of letting the unconscious direct the brush. The single room in which 15 of the museum's Pollocks are displayed is easily the highlight of the far-ranging exhibition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Painting: The New Ancestors | 6/27/1969 | See Source »

...opened the festivities with a stunning performance of Beethoven's Missa Solemnis. Next evening Karl Böhm conducted Beethoven's Fidelia, with a cast that included American Tenor Jess Thomas and Soprano Leonie Rysanek of New York's Metropolitan Opera. The week's musical highlight was undoubtedly Mozart's Don Giovanni, which was performed on the gala May night in 1869 when the Emperor Franz Josef presided over the opening of the huge sandstone operatic palace. In the pit last week was Conductor Josef Krips, who revived Don in 1945 in the grim days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opera: Centennial of a Shrine | 6/6/1969 | See Source »

...gone after sacred cows--The Lion In Winter, rosemary's Boby, Star!, Barbarella-- truly wretched films in need of a little deflating. For this we thank them, although somehow the point of a Movie Worsts issue tends to get lost when we find ourselves passively agreeing with it. The highlight of the ensuing presentation is the "Great Ceremonial Hotdog" award to Camelot's Franco Nero "for a zoom across two miles of field, up a castle wall and into his crotch while he sang 'C'est Moi.'" It's unfortunately the only highlight of an otherwise substandard creation...

Author: By Sam Ecureil, | Title: Lampoon Movie Worsts | 5/16/1969 | See Source »

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