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...Mystere de la Nativite" is Martin's most recent major composition. First conducted by Ernest Ansermet in 1959, the work was selected to open the Salzburg Festival Hall...
...both orchestra and public in guest appearances. If there was surprise elsewhere, it was only that he would be willing to give up the opera conducting that has been such an important part of his career. But despite the fact that he had started in opera-first at Salzburg, later at the Metropolitan Opera, to which he was invited in 1937-Leinsdorf found when the Boston invitation came that "my nostalgia for opera is well controlled...
...Belgium and Germany." For the last month, Kerkrade has been heard more clearly than ever-but visitors have been making all the noise. As the scene of a quadrennial spasm known as the "Fourth Musical Competition of Kerkrade," the town has become the Bayreuth of the marching brasses, the Salzburg of the wood winds, the Milano of the mandolin orchestras. Amateur bandsmen travel thousands of miles to compete in Kerk-rade's concours-this year there were 3,000 of them in 215 bands from 21 countries. When any sizable number of them tuned up and started blasting away...
Sadly, this summer's brass fanfare may be the last. Scholtes has his enemies, who feel that he has won more glory than is proper for a $220-a-month clerk. When he was invited to Salzburg last year and introduced as "beloved Herr Doktor Scholtes," his fellow townsmen seethed. But if his concours goes, the loss will be Kerkrade's: instead of listening to the pick of the world's brasses, the town will have to settle for relative quiet and its own supply of twelve brass bands, 18 male choirs, nine flute, mandolin and drum...
...orchestra despite the most hectic musical schedule maintained by any major conductor: Von Karajan is artistic director of the Vienna State Opera and a conductor of the Vienna Philharmonic, directs major opera recordings for London's Philharmonic Orchestra, appears regularly at Milan's La Scala and at Salzburg...