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...five, Albert's 40-minute, four-movement symphony was the best, as much for what it represented as for its considerable technical accomplishment. A frank invocation of the spirits of Mahler, Stravinsky and Sibelius in its late romantic thematic materials, its grandiose orchestration and its heroic reach, RiverRun would probably have been laughed off the stage 20 years ago by Albert's colleagues as impossibly regressive. If anything, the grand-gestured RiverRun is not enough of a throwback, bashfully pulling back at crucial moments as though Albert, 43, did not fully trust his expansive instincts. The conservative spirit is scarcely...
...Page's The Glenn Gould Reader (Knopf; $20) is wider in scope. A collection of some 70 speeches, magazine articles, book reviews, radio broadcasts and record-liner notes, it displays Gould's controversial musical perspicacity in such essays as Data Bank on the Upward-Scuttling Mahler and Hindemith: Will His Time Come? Again?. An accomplished parodist, Gould mocks Arthur Rubinstein's kiss-and-tell autobiographies in Memories of Maude Harbour: "I resolved to address every note of my performance to her and her alone and to inquire into the country's statutory-rape provisions at intermission." Gould even gleefully assaults...
...superficial way," says Gilbert Kaplan, 43, the publisher of Institutional Investor. So he does. In 1982 the amateur musician rented Avery Fisher Hall in New York City's Lincoln Center and hired the American Symphony Orchestra so that 2,700 friends and associates could hear him conduct Mahler's "Resurrection" Symphony. Last week Kaplan took another characteristically direct action. Increasingly distracted from the publishing company he founded 17 years ago, Kaplan announced its sale, in addition to 18 TV and radio stations, to Capital Cities Communications, owner of W and Women's Wear Daily. Price: about...
...heeled subscribers (average household income: $147,000). It has an avid following on Wall Street for its irreverent reporting and its annual ratings of securities analysts. Kaplan will stay on as editor in chief of the magazine, but music will also command his attention. He plans to conduct the Mahler work again, with the London Symphony Orchestra...
With his announcement last month, Maazel, 54, became the latest in a long line of conductorial fugitives from Vienna's legendary operatic snake pit. Among the others: Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss and Herbert von Karajan, all of whom found the Viennese insatiable thirst for intrigue intolerable. But Maazel's departure also marks a new round in a process that seems to have become habitual among international maestros today: they trade top jobs and collect new ones like baseball cards...