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...sing as if they were competing for top billing-which of course they are. Whether Verdi envisaged his heroic opera the way Nilsson and Corelli do it is another question. In any case, the rest of the cast is well-nigh unnoticeable behind all that star sound, and Zubin Mehta's conducting is efficient but not especially revealing...
...Academy. He offers students the vintage Viennese musical heritage. He also offers a powerful intellect honed on studies in Freudian psychiatry and art history as well as music. And he employs a classroom method-unorthodox, strict and demanding-that has produced such successful practitioners as Los Angeles' Zubin Mehta, Madrid's André Vandernoot and La Scala's Claudio Abbado...
...Rembrandt; a Bruckner symphony is not a Wagner opera. Each style needs its own realization." To sharpen his students' sense of style, Swarowsky suppresses their personalities, dismisses their interpretive urges as mere dilettantism. He leads them through rigorous analyses of scores. "You learn," recalls Mehta, "what the composer is doing and why, and how he entered the composition-through the back door, as it were. We never heard in Swarowsky's class what another conductor did. That is brainwashing...
...Although I admit that your accent was on youthful conductors, I wish that you could have awarded more laurels to Mehli Mehta. His work with the American Youth Symphony, largely unheralded and unsung, is truly awesome. Any man who can take a hundred California teenagers and inspire them to attempt the finest music in the symphonic repertoire and cover themselves with glory in brilliant performance deserves his share of limelight and applause. That a tremendous capacity for good lies latent in our oft-maligned American youth has again been demonstrated for us by this man from Bombay...
...sure that most teen-agers such as myself will agree that even though we flip for the rock of today, we can still appreciate the tempo that is set by Mr. Zubin Mehta in the concert hall...