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...explained, "I didn't ask my parents to attend because they're real busy now." The next Reagan wedding may be more elaborate. Maureen Reagan-the President-elect's twice-divorced daughter by Actress Jane Wyman-quietly became engaged in August to Californian Dennis Ravel. The couple is aiming for a California nuptial some time in March or April. But Maureen, 39, insists on waiting a week before making her plans public. Says she: "I don't want to upstage my brother...
...Lulu, Tristan und Isolde and-holiday-minded families will be happy to hear-Hansel and Gretel. Two of the four new productions originally announced for this season-Queen of Spades and Così Fan Tutte-have been postponed; La Traviata and Parade, a trio of one-acters by Satie, Ravel and Poulenc, will probably proceed as planned. As many as seven scheduled repertory items-including Das Rheingold, Samson et Dalila and La Gioconda-will most likely have to be shelved. But the Met hopes to mount a season of some 15 productions, featuring such stellar performers as Luciano Pavarotti, Marilyn...
Ormandy's strength has always been in the late 19th and early 20th century repertory, in the music of such composers as Tchaikovsky, Strauss, Sibelius, Ravel and Debussy. Here he conducts with color and sweep, with glowing sonorities and vivid details. If he has seemed short on profound emotion or penetrating insight, notably into classical composers like Mozart and Beethoven, his musicianship-his pitch, timing and ear for balances and shadings-has always been impeccable. Having inherited a great ensemble from Stokowski, he made it greater. He has hired virtually all of the orchestra's 106 members...
Whatever they play from their repertory of some 50 trios-in a recent appearance at Carnegie Hall, it was Beethoven, Ravel and Schubert-their work reflects years of study, discussion and meticulous rehearsal. Yet it is never reduced to rote. "During a concert, the one who has an inspiration will go with it," says Pressler. "The others will follow, even if they disagree. Then we do not simply replay a piece, we re-create...
What a life Misia Sert lived! Fauré gave her piano lessons. Ravel dedicated La Valse to her. Stravinsky presented her with the score of Le Sucre du Printemps. Diaghilev made her his ally; she was the only woman with whom he could feel intimate. Toulouse-Lautrec, Bonnard, Vuillard, Renoir, Vallotton painted her, sometimes obsessively. Cocteau modeled the heroine of his novel Thomas l'lmposteur on her. In the masterly hands of Proust she became two people, Princess Yourbeletieff, the young sponsor of the Ballets Russes: "One might have supposed that this marvelous creature had been imported in their...