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...showed up, and most of them were shower-room Carusos. The real blow, though, was his fund-raising gala, featuring Maria Callas. It sold only 30% of the 4,100 seats in the State Fair Music Hall. On the following night, the company opened with an excellent performance of Rossini's L'Italiana in Algeri-and got much the same box office results. Kelly was dumfounded. "The response was so bad," he recalls, "that the only possible thing to do was go right ahead and plan a second season before anybody could stop...
...most hopeless hi-fi addicts who ever attenuated a treble. Last week, while on vacation in London, he relieved some of his anxieties by hiring 63 off-duty members of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra to record his favorite ballet music from Verdi's Sicilian Vespers and Rossini's William Tell. Bowes first hit on the tape-it-yourself idea while visiting a musician friend who was making a recording. He got fascinated with the possibility of filling in the gaps in his stereo-tape library with his own recordings, and when he learned that a symphony musician could...
...programming, he is not the stuffed shirt some detractors make him out to be. Last year he launched the Metropolitan National Company, a sort of touring farm club for the Met, to "perform the kind of out-of-the-ordi-nary works that the Metropolitan cannot do," such as Rossini's La Cenerentola and Carlisle Floyd's Susannah. Perhaps the best indication of his flexibility...
Still, it was strictly an economy-class operation. Bing would have liked to have staged something extravagant, such as Aida or Turandot. Instead, the proud company was restricted to a measly six performances of two low-budget chamber operas - Rossini's Barber of Seville and Mozart's Marriage of Figaro - at the small (1,200-seat) Odeon Theater in Paris. Thus programmed, the Met's venture was bound to run into trouble...
...works. "Boccherini is Haydn's wife," jested a violinist of the day, referring to the Italian's gentle, melting melodies, including gilded minuets that are whispering echoes of an elegant past. There is just such a dance in this bland but pretty symphony played by the Orchestra Rossini di Napoli, conducted by Franco Caracciolo...