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Manuel de Falla: The Three-Cornered Hat. (The Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa, conductor Deutsche Grammophon). Like much ballet music heard outside the theater, The Three-Cornered Hat calls for some imaginative listening. Written for Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, it is enormously theatrical, punctuated with expectant pauses from the first fanfare to the last triumphant Jota. Ozawa leads a bright, brassy performance of the Fandango, Seguidillas and Farucca. Teresa Berganza fans will only wish that she had more to sing...
...Waart conductor, Philips). Another up-and-coming pianist is Ana-Maria Vera of Washington, D.C. The joyous innocence with which she attacks these lighthearted concertos is at once admirable and touching. So is her sparkling technique and rapport with Maestro De Waart, the Dutchman who is succeeding Seiji Ozawa at the helm of the San Francisco Symphony. Ana-Maria, born in 1965. was eleven when this recording was made...
...Music and prisons both have necessary functions, but they sure don't go together," Boston Symphony conductor Seiji Ozawa said a week ago before a packed auditorium in Tanglewood, Mass. Tanglewood, in the Berkshires, is the summer home of the Boston Symphony and the state is planning to establish a medium security prison there. The proposal to convert a vacant Jesuit seminary near Tanglewood into a facility for 260 prisoners has met vociferous opposition from townspeople, area business and Symphony players who view the intense security and the omnipresent barbed wire that would accompany the prison establishment as threatening...
Performers will include the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Seiji Ozawa, the New England Conservatory Orchestra under Gunther Schuller, the University of Iowa Orchestra under James Dixon, and an orchestra of Boston musicians under Richard Pittman. Many chamber ensembles, including Boston Musica Viva, Collage, the Celveland String Quartet, the Pro Arte String Quartet, and the Societe de Musique contemporaine du Quebec, will also be appearing. Most of the concerts will be in the Conservatory's venerable Jordan Hall, which should help with acclimatization to even the most unfamiliar sounds...
Boston Symphony Orchestra--Symphony Hall, Boston--7:30 p.m.--Seiji Ozawa, conductor--works of Stolzel, Cage, Falla. Info...