Word: kubelik
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These days Japan ranks as a major stop on the international concert circuit. Pierre Boulez and the BBC Symphony have just finished a three-week visit; Rafael Kubelik and the Bavarian Radio Symphony are playing now. Next week Native Son Seiji Ozawa comes in with the San Francisco Symphony. On a refueling stop in Anchorage, the Met crowd encountered the entire company of Britain's Royal Ballet in the airport waiting room. They were on their way home to London from Tokyo...
...Levine and John Dexter, formerly with Britain's National Theater and the Met's director of production. Levine will be only the second man in Met history to hold the title music director, and he is expected to have more authority than the first, Conductor Rafael Kubelik, who quit the job in 1974. Bliss, a Wall Street lawyer and former Met board president during the Rudolf Bing era, thinks highly of Levine and has made no secret of his own reluctance to get involved in day-to-day artistic decisions...
Still, the real show may be behind the scenes. Any performance of Les Troyens is a miracle of calibration. In the pit, Conductor Rafael Kubelik uses everything but radar to maintain contact with seven assistant conductors. They are backstage with walkie-talkies to communicate with each other as they herd bands and choruses around the platforms, often walking in the opposite direction from the motion of the turntable. When film sequences start to roll, Kubelik's tempos must not vary by more than four seconds from performance to performance...
...first good news this year for Schuyler Chapin, general manager of New York's Metropolitan Opera. After recently accepting the resignation of Music Director Rafael Kubelik and trimming the length of future seasons, Chapin got some assistance last week on his worst problem: a multimillion-dollar operating deficit. The National Endowment for the Arts came through with a lifesaving transfusion of $1 million for general support, which must be matched by private contributions. This is the first time that the Met, the premier American grand opera house, has received a sizable federal grant, though public subsidies are routine...
...President George S. Moore commented bluntly: "I am sorry about Kubelik's resignation, but it is impossible to do things by Telex. He worked part time." Understandably, Kubelik saw things differently. In a terse resignation statement he contended that the Met's financial condition prevented him from achieving his "artistic ideals." He concluded: "Relieved of certain of my artistic demands, the Metropolitan may be better able to bring its financial situation into balance." Exactly what these artistic requirements might be-beyond hustling up the odd Tosca in a hurry -remained unspecified...