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...QUALITY of this season has been good, if simply for the variety of conductors who have been invited to fill in for Steinberg. Unfortunately, there persists the tendency to stick to the warhorses and shy away from experimentation, as witnessed by the disastrous concerts given by Carlo Maria Giulini. His histrionic performance of the "Pathetique" Symphony pleased the Friday afternoon matrons but caused a furor which led the members of the orchestra to request publicly that several Boston critics be banned from future performances. Seiji Ozawa's interpretation of Carmina Burana was much better, and Claudio Abbado's choice...
...scene was a supper party celebrating the opening of Maria Callas' first film, Medea. And who should be prominently in the foreground? None other than Old Boyfriend Aristotle Onassis. Sans Jackie, of course. The former famous twosome even got together during Christmas holidays while Jackie was in England with her children. Won't Mrs. O. mind? "Jackie is tough," says Ari. Just how tough-and in which way -remains to be seen...
...Maria Callas returns to the Met in Tosca, New York...
...stroke-and he may never find out. No one in Portugal has so far been able to summon up the nerve to tell the old man that his 36-year reign is over. The task of preventing Salazar from finding out has fallen chiefly to his housekeeper, Dona Maria de Jesus Caetano Freire, and his physician. They deny him newspapers and television, explaining that such diversions would "tire" him. They schedule meetings with his former Cabinet ministers, who politely ignore his directives. They even admit some journalists if they promise not to reveal that Marcello Caetano is now Premier...
...Brandeis and a year of graduate work at the Free University in Berlin. At Manhattan, Gelles studied under Michael Steinberg, a distinguished musicologist who now writes reviews for the Boston Globe. Like Steinberg, Critic Gelles insists upon high musical standards. Four weeks ago in the Globe, Steinberg chided Carlo Maria Giulini, guest conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. If Danny Kaye or Victor Borge had conducted "with such crazed dislocation of tempo and with such prodigality in expression of tragic suffering and deep knee-bends," wrote Steinberg, "the audience would have been in stitches." Two weeks ago in the Herald...