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When is a symphony not a symphony? Well, for one, when it does not adhere to a customary, specific form. Such was the case of Israel composer Joseph Tal's Symphony No. 2. one of three works performed by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Zubin Mehta. In a refreshing and varied program. Mehta, the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Musical Director, also presented Maurice Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe, Suite No. 2. and the Symphony' No. 1 in D Major by Gustav Mahler...
...main group" of the Symphony No. 2 is characterized by the opposition of smooth, but eerie-sounding -atonal brass and woodwind passages, against the short, gruff phrases played by the lower strings. Throughout this section, Mr. Mehta was in complete control, especially in his precise handling of the cello and bass passages--which were, rhythmically, quite complex. Yet the orchestra's ensemble playing was perfectly clean and balanced, adding to the work's percussive quality. The solo tympani section towards the end of the piece was yet another example of precision: At times, the two tympanists, playing in unison, appeared...
...WHEN MR. MEHTA returned to the podium for the Ravel, he seemed to be in better spirits than during the opening work. Smiling, and with more confidence, he conducted an exquisite performance of Daphnis et Chloe, Suite No. 2, the second of the two orchestral suites that were drawn from Ravel's complete ballet. While conducting, Mehta became the personification of the music--his arms were fluid and graceful during the light, airy passages in the opening of the Ravel, and then became tense and stiff when the music demanded rhythmically exact cues to the orchestral players. And Mr. Mehta...
...longer is." Where one castle used to suffice for a Toscanini or a Koussevitsky, now only two-or more-will do. Pierre Boulez now jets between the New York Philharmonic and London's BBC Symphony, Georg Solti between the Chicago Symphony and Orchestre de Paris, Zubin Mehta between the Los Angeles and Israel Philharmonics, Lorin Maazel between London's New Philharmonia and the Berlin Radio Orchestra; Maazel will also conduct the Cleveland Orchestra beginning next fall...
...music. At the end of the concert at which the walkouts occurred, the management committee decided to drop the Schoenberg. To replace it, Violinist Zeitlin chose a piece well calculated to mollify his tradition-minded audience, Mendelssohn's melodious Violin Concerto. "I approve of the decision," said Mehta on the phone from Los Angeles 10,000 miles away, "but I am not happy about...