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...baritone. That was regrettable. Though John Reardon as the son and Sherill Milnes as the lover both performed superbly, the pairing of two baritones and two sopranos robbed the vocal writing of contrast. More damaging was the fact that Levy's mildly modern score, conducted by Zubin Mehta, did not meet the challenge of the theme, too often resorted to clever percussive chattering that seemed to say "crisis coming!" Melodies meandered, the curiously opaque orchestration lagged meekly behind instead of leaping forward. Save for some rich vocal writing in a second-act quartet and the dissonant clashings above distant...
...economics, the emphasis was on pragmatists, who would do what was good for India rather than follow the wasteful shibboleths of Indian-style socialism. The new Finance Minister, Morarji Desai, 71, who is also Deputy Prime Minister, will encourage foreign businessmen to invest in India. Plan ning Minister Asoka Mehta, 55, intends to cut back on bureaucratic state control of business, and took on the added portfolio of chemicals and petroleum in order to give new impetus to the drive to build more artificial-fertilizer plants in India. Commerce Minister Dinesh Singh, 41, intends to push Indian sales to Western...
...Tyrone Guthrie's staging was fittingly roughhewn and seafaring. But for most of the audience, the true center of interest was the Met debut of British Conductor Colin Davis. One of the world's top young maestros, Davis, along with the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Zubin Mehta and the Berlin Radio Orchestra's Lorin Maazel, is among the front-running candidates to succeed Leonard Bernstein when he steps down as musical director of the New York Philharmonic...
...three languages, and finally paraded ecstatically through congratulatory mobs in Spoleto's town square on the night of his birthday. Musically, the program equaled anything that Bell was ever able to do in the studio, with Sviatoslav Richter as the pianist in the Shostakovich Quintet and Zubin Mehta conducting the Verdi Requiem and a stunning new production of Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande...
...undeniable excellence of the ladies, some men musicians and conductors still view them with a wary eye. They subscribe to Sir Thomas Beecham's dictum: "If she is attractive, I can't perform with her; if she is not, then I won't." Lady-Killer Zubin Mehta, 30, who appreciates a well-turned ankle as much as a well-played musical phrase, has different reasons. He has enforced a limit of 16 women in his Los Angeles Philharmonic, because "a woman's life in the orchestra is not as long...