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...tightly disciplined ensemble under the impressively gifted American conductor Leonard Slatkin, 38. Like the Chicago Symphony, which it resembles in style and flair, the St. Louis Symphony is at its best in big pieces, but of a more recent vintage: Rachmaninoff's orchestral music, Shostakovich and Prokofiev symphonies. Good as the orchestra is, its fortunes remain closely tied to Slatkin...
...will perform the Prokofiev Piano Concerto opus 10 in D-Flat Major with the HRO in March...
...Composer George Rochberg's The Confidence Man this week, and is staging Strauss's rare Die Liebe der Danae as well; the Opera Theater of St. Louis in June presented the premiere of Stephen Paulus' ambitious The Postman Always Rings Twice, which it commissioned, and unearthed Prokofiev's youthful one-act shocker Maddalena...
...look at our neighbors and ourselves. His characters in film and print inevitably exhibit the flaws we least like to admit in ourselves, but Allen can point that out to us only by making us laugh at them. When Boris goes dancing down the road with Death to Prokofiev's Lieutenant Kieje in Love and Death we chuckle Kieje was a hero but Boris certainly isn't, he's just another schmuck out of his element, a schmuck who got screwed, and a schmuck who admits it. And we know that eventually we too are going to get screwed...
...long drones, eloquent turns. It approaches the inspired, improvised style of Arab and Indian performers. The infustion of folk elements won it the Stalin Prize (now called the State Prize) in 1941; but the continued development of Khachaturian's almost brash individuality caused him to be censured, along with Prokofiev and Shostakovich (Khachaturian's teacher...