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...maestro, holding a fly in his hand, answered calmly: "People always were stupid and always will be. More interesting is what I have just discovered-that a fly uses his hind legs to drive his flight." It is still interesting to learn about nature's miracles of nature. RUDOLF HUB Lima, Peru...
...excellent production was something of a United Nations effort, what with an Italian conductor (Bruno Amaducci), an Estonian director (Ulf Thomson), a Greek baritone (Rudolf Constatin), an Australian soprano (Althea Bridges), a Japanese basso (Kunikazu Ohashi) and a Spanish tenor (José Maria Perez). The libretto deals with Attila's siege of Italy in the 5th century and is embellished with the usual subplots of revenge, lust and political hanky-panky. What makes the opera worth the salvaging is the vigor and sheer melodic beauty of the score. Though Verdi the patriot worked at odds with Verdi the composer...
...Otto's reentry, to the vast relief of a great many Austrians who recall the empire with a vivid mixture of nostalgia and Angst. So powerful an issue is the long-dead monarchy that the campaign has even been enlivened by a Dusseldorf human-relations counselor, Dr. Theodor Rudolf Pachmann, who last month petitioned for recognition as the only legitimate heir of Emperor Franz Josef. His ground: that his father was born in 1883 to a secret marriage between a Tuscan princess and Crown Prince Rudolf...
...dash of improvisation, "a drop of fresh blood," into each performance. He will even experiment with new fingerings "that suddenly occur to me" in the middle of a performance. "It is dangerous, I admit," he says, "but that is the way music develops." As a result, says Pianist Rudolf Serkin, "his music is becoming more reflective, but at the same time it is becoming younger. It's almost as if he's playing everything for the first time...
...quite a lot, but I dismissed a lot in them too. If there's anything original about me, it is a composite of all of them." Compared with the best of his contemporaries, Rubinstein may lack some of the technical wizardry of Vladimir Horowitz, the intensely cerebral approach of Rudolf Serkin, or the mystical flights of Sviatoslav Richter. But the sum of his parts adds up to much more...