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...spring night in 1949, while visiting the short-story writer Peter Taylor, Lowell's quiet psychosis went public on the streets of Bloomington, Ind. Until he was jailed, he wandered the city raving against devils and homosexuals. Similar episodes followed wherever he traveled: in Boston, in London, in Salzburg, in Buenos Aires. At some point he would fall in love: with a nurse, an airline stewardess, a Latvian dancer. It hardly mattered. She would become the angel of his "rebirth...
...young Americans is James Levine, 38, who holds the powerful job of music director at the Metropolitan Opera. In demand throughout the classical spectrum, Levine has emphasized his career in opera. He makes his Bayreuth debut this summer in Wagner's Parsifal and will conduct operas in Salzburg and Vienna as well...
Mozart: The Symphonies, Salzburg 1766-1772, Vol. 2 (L'Oiseau-Lyre, 3 LPs). The latest in the Academy of Ancient Music's revelatory Mozart cycle, on period instruments...
...first major opera, Boulevard Solitude, brought him widespread attention. By age 40 he had recorded all five of his symphonies-he has since written a sixth-with the redoubtable Berlin Philharmonic. His opera The Bassarids was given a triumphant first production in 1966 at that bastion of conservatism, the Salzburg Festival; another opera, We Come to the River, was premiered by London's Royal Opera ten years later. Commissions are plentiful, and Henze is active as a conductor of his own music. Last week in Chicago, the composer led the mighty Chicago Symphony Orchestra in a program devoted entirely...
Mozart: The Symphonies, Vol. 5, Salzburg, 1775-1783 (The Academy of Ancient Music directed by Jaap Schroder, violin, and Christopher Hogwood, harpsichord; L'Oiseau-Lyre, four records). How did Mozart's music sound in Mozart's day? The Academy of Ancient Music, one of Britain's best original-instruments ensembles, is answering the question with its traversal of 68 Mozart symphonies-27 more than the commonly accepted 41. They are played on 18th century instruments or modern replicas, which are tuned slightly lower than their modern counterparts. Such familiar works as the "Hajffher" and "Linz"symphonies...