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Directed by S. OZAWA Screenplay by KOJITAKADA and STEVE AUTRY...
Last week, while the Composers Quartet was performing in New York City, Conductor Seiji Ozawa and the San Francisco Symphony were playing Carter's granitic Concerto for Orchestra (1969) in the War Memorial Opera House. In March, Pierre Boulez will preside over the world premiere of a new Duo for Violin and Piano at a New York Philharmonic Prospective Encounters concert. At 66, Carter would seem to be in danger of becoming that rare thing in contemporary music, a composer in vogue...
Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique (Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti conducting; London, $6.98; Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra, Colin Davis conducting; Philips, $7.98). One of the fantastic things about this symphony is the number of superior recorded performances it has had over the years. Argenta, Beecham, Munch, Van Beinum and Ozawa are among the many who have mastered this wildly prophetic score, completed in 1830, only three years after Beethoven's death. Here are two new versions, both by virtuoso conductors and virtuoso orchestras, that go to the top of the list. To choose between them is difficult. Davis' elegant approach...
Hector Berlioz: The Damnation of Faust (Seiji Ozawa conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra with the Tanglewood Festival Chorus; Deutsche Grammophon, 3 LPs, $23.94). Rhythm and an instinct for drama animate Ozawa's shaping of this Berlioz semiopera. Although it overflows with melody, Berlioz's musical transformation of Goethe is generally known only by three orchestral pieces- the exuberant Rákdóczy March, the Dance of the Sylphs and the Minuet of the Will o' the Wisp. With out diminishing the lushness of the com poser's symphonic texture, Ozawa's crisp tempi...
Born. To Seiji Ozawa, 38, kinetic conductor of the Boston and San Francisco symphonies, and Vera Ozawa, 29, former Tokyo fashion model: their first son, second child; in San Francisco...