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...activity limited to America. Since 1975, Levine has appeared regularly at the prestigious Salzburg Festival in Austria, leading widely acclaimed productions of Mozart's The Magic Flute and La Clemenza di Tito in the composer's home town. When Wolfgang Wagner, grandson of Richard, was seeking a conductor for last summer's centennial production of Parsifal at Bayreuth, Levine was his choice. "Jimmy's star is going up," says a member of the Chicago Symphony. "I don't think anything will interrupt the rise." Levine talks about his ascent to prominence with a characteristic mixture...
...Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro (London, 4 LPs). Matchless Mozartean Sir Georg Solti leads the London Philharmonic and a cast including Kiri Te Kanawa in a sparkling reading...
...private activities. Where López Portillo was an outgoing sportsman and ban vivant, De la Madrid prefers recreations like reading at home in his library or in the garden (among his favorite authors: Hermann Hesse, Morris West and Mexico's Carlos Fuentes), listening to music (Mozart and Mexican romantics like Agustin Lara), or playing dominoes. Every two or three weeks he travels to his family's country home where he enjoys swimming, badminton and walking. He keeps in shape by doing calisthenics every day; he also jogs. He admits to a mild passion for soccer, but rarely...
...sharp and acid." It was also young and sexy. Thereafter he made several small ballets, all at least lively, some a bit close to the exercise book. In the past year he has taken a big step forward. In The Magic Flute, a comic folktale ballet (not related to Mozart's opera), Martins produced an earthy, unpretentious romp. Concerto for Two Solo Pianos, made for last June's Stravinsky festival, recalls the sharp, acidulous Calcium, but it is more complex and by far the most dramatic of Martins' ballets...
...stones, they are headdresses that once topped the nakedness of Paris showgirls. On the gallery walls are Erté's original paintings of the sets and costumes he created for such disparate productions as George White's Scandals in New York City in the '20s and Mozart's Così fan tutte at the Paris...