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...recognized, and the Boston Symphony decided to celebrate the two hundredth anniversary of Beethoven's birth last week with a five day series of concerts, concentrating on the symphonies and piano concertos. The ailing music director, William Steinberg, brought in two distinguished conductors, Leonard Bernstein and Max Rudolf, and an equally fine pianist, Rudolf Serkin. As the week began, the prospects looked good...
...programs on five consecutive nights with a strange conductor and a strange soloist is absurd. The strangeness produced inferior results from all of the participants. Serkin's performances on the first few nights were wooden and incompatible with the orchestra, and the BSO, in its turn, was unused to Rudolf's distinctive style. Naturally, the performances did little to enhance the reputations of Serkin, Rudlof, BSO, or Beethoven...
...Marion started to fence when he was sixteen years old in his home town, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia. At that time, Colonel Rudolf Cwetko, an Austrio-Hungarian fencing master, was associated with the club, and Edo became his student...
Horne's triumph at age 36 raised an inevitable question: why had it taken her so long to get to the Met? The often suggested answer is Rudolf Sing's well-known preference for European singers. But the truth is that Home was not interested in making her debut in such customary mezzo roles as the bitch (Amneris) in Aida or the witch (Azucena) in Trovatore. What she wanted and got was a role demanding enough to show off a voice already broader in stylistic range than that of any soprano singing opera today...
...there all along." Her next new role will be as Fidès in Meyerbeer's Le Prophète, which she will sing this summer both in Turin and London. "Fidès is Norma for contraltos," she explains. "I'm looking forward to it." Meanwhile Rudolf Bing, the Met and its followers can look forward to 18 more performances of Norma before the season closes...