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...some of his less prolific contemporaries: he has more than 800 compositions to his credit, including a dozen symphonies. Just back from a twelve-month world tour, Composer Cowell, now 60, shows not the slightest sign of slowing up. Last week his melodic, folksy Music for Orchestra 1957 was premièred in Athens by Conductor Antal Dorati (who commissioned it) and the Minneapolis Symphony, at the opening concert of the orchestra's Middle East tour...
Scored for Tar. The Minneapolis will also première Cowell's Persian Set, a haunting, eastern-flavored piece originally scored for twelve instruments, including the three-stringed Persian tar. Cowell was also able, in the past year, to work on a 13th symphony, write a two-movement piece with a "Japanese feel" titled Ongaku (music), and compose, on commission, a national anthem for the new state of Malay (it was rejected, along with entries by Benjamin Britten and others, in favor of a Malayan folk tune named Bright Moonlight...
Since Wieland and Wolfgang Wagner began redraping Grandfather Richard's operas in modern scenic dress seven years ago, première audiences at the Bayreuth Festival have usually focused more on the props than the performance. But last week at the festival's curtain raiser-a new Wolfgang Wagner production of Tristan und Isolde-all ears were sharply tuned to the sounds coming out of the concealed orchestra pit. There Conductor Wolfgang Sawallisch, at 34 perhaps the most gifted German conductor to emerge since Herbert von Karajan and the youngest ever to conduct at Bayreuth, was making...
...hanging if he owned the beer concession, last week tossed a champagne-budget party (estimates: $50,000 and up) near London for a few (estimates: 2,000 and up) of his friends. Mike's angle: none, except that, he conceded, a word or two about the London première of his zany travelogue Around the World in 80 Days might "sneak into the newspapers.'' At London's vast, varicolored Battersea Pleasure Gardens, Todd's flunkeys dealt out some 2,000 plastic raincoats he had bought ("The goddamn rain flowed like champagne," the great...
...through the performance, the stunned audience had recovered itself enough to start booing and hissing; by the middle of the evening a fourth of the audience had stomped out angrily. Next day the newspapers were in full and angry cry. Said the critic of Prace: "Even the première audience was often in doubt, and how much more in doubt will be our working people who go to the theater to enjoy themselves and be instructed." Nonsense, replied Director Bohumil Hrdlicka. He had simply been trying to infuse a little life and "socialist realism" into Mozart. For two more...