Word: maestro
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...long run, Davis knows that his plans hinge on musical successes-like Figaro-rather than his charisma. "I'm not the maestro type, throwing scores at people or eating the telephone," he says. "I'm a perfectly ordinary bloke who happens to be musical director of the Royal Opera. Of course, I have to play the role of the chap who is never flustered, always self-confident. But when I wake up in the night I find there are pieces of my fingers all over the pillow...
...assessment of Picasso, the maestro and the myth, Hughes drew first of all on his extensive knowledge of the artist's work. He has seen virtually all the major Picasso shows held on the Continent, in England and the U.S. during the past eight years. Our Paris bureau added human touches-insights and details of Picasso's day-to-day life gleaned from friends of the reclusive giant...
...same ritually stupefied reverence. Hence la légende Picasso, which has been energetically prodded along by writers like Hélène Parmelin and photographers like David Douglas Duncan and Gjon Mili. From their breathless accounts a satyr rises, mythic, Gargantuan, and fatally easy to parody. The Maestro's working day, one might suppose, begins with a light breakfast of goat's testicles and salade niçoise. Then, surrounded by a flock of admiring tame doves, he descends to his studio and executes 30 engravings, two murals and a still life. At lunch, having done...
...tips in the art of gracefully demolishing a bull. Now it is pottery time, and 83 ceramic owls later, Picasso summons his chauffeur and picks up three virgins on the beach. They are deflowered during the siesta, and retire, twittering gratefully, to write their memoirs. Refreshed, the Maestro fills in the yawning hours before dinner with a dozen portraits. The omelette palpitates under his fork, unable to believe its luck. It, too, will be converted into a Picasso. A green, nocturnal silence reigns in the garden, broken only by the muffled clamor of Greek shipping millionaires stuffing $1,000 bills...
Opera is not chamber music, and chamber music is not symphonic music. Many people respond only to one of these forms. That highly desirable situation must not change. If Maestro Boulez conducts only to effect a change, then he is willfully ignoring the musical needs of all Western civilization, which needs profound and penetrating performances of the symphonic repertoire from Bach through Brahms...