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...Government's Hubble budget alone will amount to an annual injection of more than $150 million into the scientific community. No wonder that researchers were awaiting the launch with both excitement and apprehension. "A lot is riding on that pillar of fire," observed institute director Riccardo Giacconi...
...will not lack work opportunities anytime soon. Covent Garden is on the telephone, pleading that she not cancel a new La Sonnambula because the agreed-upon director has just withdrawn. Italian maestro Riccardo Chailly, who is on her very short list of preferred conductors, wants her for Rossini's The Turk in Italy, not exactly on opera's hit parade, but that does not matter to Anderson. Major new productions have been lined up in Chicago (finally, perhaps, a satisfying Lucia) and San Francisco (La Sonnambula), as well as a new Semiramide next season...
Every few years the music stops and a handful of big-name box-office attractions make a grab for one another's chairs. It happened a few years ago when Previn left the Pittsburgh Symphony; Lorin Maazel quit the Vienna State Opera and landed in Pittsburgh; Riccardo Muti, 47, conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, added the directorship of La Scala in Milan to his resume; La Scala's former leader, Claudio Abbado, 55, headed for Vienna. About the only one who did not go anywhere then was the New York Metropolitan Opera's James Levine...
BRUCKNER: SYMPHONY NO. 6 (EMI). The obscure Sixth in a bang-up reading by Riccardo Muti and the Berlin Philharmonic. And you thought Bruckner was boring...
BRUCKNER: SYMPHONY NO. 6 (EMI). The obscure Sixth in a bang-up reading by Riccardo Muti and the Berlin Philharmonic. And you thought Bruckner was boring...