Word: laing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...La Dee Dah, by Billy & Lilly...
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...La Scala's Claudio Abbado, 34, is a stern, urgent pursuer of the long musical line, a Toscanini-like stickler for both fine-mesh detail and overall coherence. Imperious and intensely concentrated, he spurs an orchestra on with a clean, incisive beat, often achieving a surging pulse and crackling inner tension. He excels with the original texts of operas, giving them what one critic calls an "electric-shock treatment...
...Zubin was packed off to the Vienna Academy, where $75 a month had to suffice for his teetotaling version of la vie de bohème; a nonsmoker as well as a nondrinker, he lapped up ice cream and orange juice in the cafes while other students had cigarettes and coffee or brandy. He tirelessly went to concerts, played bass in the academy orchestra ("I learned a lot about orchestra psychology"), and gravitated to the conducting classes of Hans Swarowsky. The revered teacher recognized in Mehta a "demoniac conductor" who "had it all." Nevertheless, he put Mehta through the usual...
...Israel, he created a tempest in a tea glass when he tried-unsuccessfully-to get the Israel Philharmonic to do a piece by Richard Wagner, whose music was so enthusiastically embraced by the Nazis that it still disturbs many Jews. In Italy, he flustered musical circles by picketing La Scala with musicians who were protesting a cut in state subsidies for opera. A few weeks ago, he outraged the New York musical establishment by vehemently rejecting any possibility that he might become Leonard Bernstein's successor as conductor of the New York Philharmonic. "Artistically it would...