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Piatigorsky notes that many a conductor who seems "desperately in love with music" was not notably enraptured by it when he was an obscure member of the orchestra. The maestro simply develops a keen sense of ownership: "Isn't my orchestra wonderful? Do you know my Ravel, my Tchaikovsky, my Brahms?" All the same, Piatigorsky asks: "How is it that a man who never conducted or studied conducting is capable of giving an acceptable performance without warning and on the spur of the moment? No one can expect a comparable feat on any instrument...
...Chagallic vignettes of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov fill the rest of the blue space. On around the circle, clockwise, yellow-bedecked dancers pirouette to Adam's Giselle and Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake. Ballet is further honored in the red petal, with Stravinsky's Firebird and Ravel's Daphnis and Chloé depicted near, of all things, the Eiffel Tower. Next, Debussy's Pelléas and Mélisande swoon under a yellow angel...
...harmless as a passing cloud-Gershwin, Sousa, Leroy Anderson. This follows the old axiom that serious music, like aged whisky, should be saved for cold winter nights.* But the music that Conductor Andre Kostelanetz chose to open the New York Philharmonic "Promenades" series last week had real substance-Shostakovich, Ravel, Alan Hovhaness...
...much beyond a battle over a nightgown. The gown was worn by Eurydice (Dancer Cora Cahan) over flesh-colored tights and, as New York Daily News Critic Douglas Watt observed, it seemed Orpheus wanted it. (P.S.: He got it.) Excerpts from Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk and Ravel's Piano Concerto in G were deformed by the Philharmonic's raucous and jarring performance...
...ANGELES: MÉLODIES DE FRANCE (Angel). Soprano De los Angeles has a voice as well-suited to dulcet song cycles from France as to the Spanish repertory she often sings. Here, with little help from the Paris Conservatory Orchestra under Georges Prétre, she sings Ravel, Duparc and Debussy with ease and grace...