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...Marlboro Music Festival, where Pianist Rudolf Serkin plays host to 85 musicians from around the world for the best sessions of chamber music on the summer circuit. The concerts, with such as Cellist Pablo Casals, are held in a 630-seat theater at Marlboro...
...said Rudolf Nureyev, like "graduating from finishing school," a chance "to show what I learned about the West, and what I can do with it choreographically." Last week at the Vienna State Opera, Nureyev presented Tancredi, his first try at choreographing a modern ballet. No pretty picture princes, no fluttering ballerinas in cupid wings this time. He turned the old love-triangle theme into an exploration of neurosis from womb to tomb, into a balletic adventure that was, as one critic put it, "for the Jung in heart...
MOZART: CONCERTOS 14, IN E FLAT MAJOR, AND 17, IN G MAJOR (Columbia). The elegant flowers of Mozart's genius are tended with loving care by Rudolf Serkin. He does particularly well at portraying the shifting moods of the G Major Concerto, which begins like one of the composer's opera overtures with a triumphant flood of sound, then grows increasingly introspective. Serkin's careful hands hold the balance, and the listener hears one of Mozart's most poignant statements...
...Major Rudolf Anderson...
...State Department, huffed Rudolf Bing, apparently does not think that the Metropolitan Opera "is important enough to be sent abroad." The Met, he said, cannot afford the trip, and "the State Department has given us nothing. We have to beg, and we are tired of begging." So he took matters into his own hands. Last week, with a gift of $140,000 from private donors, Bing packed up 50 tons of scenery and costumes, bundled 163 members of his company onto two chartered jets, and took the Met to Europe for the first time in 56 years...