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...idea of producing Falstaff originated four years ago, when Giulini became music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, succeeding Zubin Mehta. He and Ernest Fleischmann, the orchestra's shrewd executive director, agreed that Giulini would lead at least one fully staged opera under ideal working conditions during his tenure. Since 1968, when he performed Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro at the Met, Giulini has turned down all offers to conduct opera in the theater. Accustomed to only new productions at such major opera houses as Milan's La Scala and London's Covent Garden, Giulini...
...without peer domestically, whatever Solti's interpretive excesses. The other two members of the Big Five are the Philadelphia Orchestra, once magnificent but facing an uncertain future in the hands of its new music director, Riccardo Muti, and the New York Philharmonic, a temperamental band, even under Zubin Mehta, that rarely deserves to be included in such fast company. There are worthy, even splendid, orchestras in such cities as Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Cincinnati, Buffalo, Washington, D.C., and San Francisco that do not deserve also-ran status...
...hour evening concert by the Israel Philharmonic at Tel Aviv's Mann Auditorium was drawing to a close when Guest Conductor Zubin Mehta, 45, unexpectedly turned to the microphone. "Tonight," said he, "we plan to play Wagner." With those words, Mehta ended an unofficial 33-year ban in Israel on the playing of music by German Composer Richard Wagner, a noted anti-Semite enshrined by the Nazis. Continued Mehta: "I understand the emotions of those who have gone through concentration camps. Anyone who does not want to hear can leave the hall." Two orchestra members and a number from...
...classical passion harmonized nicely. Kaye, 68, has since trotted out his tux for guest appearances with symphony orchestras from San Francisco to Stockholm. For PBS's Sept. 23 Live from Lincoln Center performance of the New York Philharmonic, the baton will be passed by Musical Director Zubin Mehta, 45. Kaye does not read music, but, says he: "I know the scores by heart. I know the nuances I want. I just relay my instructions to the orchestra with expressions instead of my hands...
...depends on how you play it." Her note pads bear the legend "quarter note," and her stationary is covered with small flowering G-clefs. Last December, in what she describes as "the most important thing that's ever happened to me," she soloed with Zubin Mehta and the New York Philharmonic, and this summer she will travel as far as Tokyo to give her third recital in the city's most prestigious concert hall...