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SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No. 5 (RCA). Soviet grandeur meets American dynamism in Leonard Slatkin's explosive reading...
...green landmark has been sold at auction by the feuding family of Wall Street's most notorious insider trader, Ivan Boesky. The buyer: Tycoon Marvin Davis. The secretive Denver oilman, 61, submitted the winning bid of about $135 million to Boesky's wife Seema and her sister Muriel Slatkin. The sisters have not spoken in years, partly because Seema, who held 52% of the property, and Ivan refused Muriel a private table at the Polo Lounge, the hotel's celebrity watering hole. The star-struck Davis, who once owned 20th Century- Fox, says he will refurbish the 260-room hotel...
...wife took pride in their controlling interest in the Beverly Hills Hotel, though it was won in a bitter family struggle. Boesky's father-in-law had bought the hotel in the early 1950s and left 48% ownership to each of his daughters, Seema and her sister Muriel Slatkin. Muriel and Husband Burton ran the hotel until 1980, when the Boeskys managed to buy the remaining 4% stake from another relative...
BERNSTEIN: Candide Overture; Facsimile Ballet; Fancy Free Ballet; On the Town (Three Dance Episodes). Leonard Slatkin conducting the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra (Angel). Far cheerier is this disk of Bernstein excerpts. Whatever one thinks about the musical-comedy-turned -opera itself, the raucous overture to Candide remains one of its composer's most vibrant creations. The gotta- dance high spirits of the one-act ballet Fancy Free, later transformed and expanded into the Broadway show On the Town, are just as irresistible. Was this perhaps Bernstein's true calling? Lenny conducts Lenny, and both are at their best...
PROKOFIEV: No. 5 (St. Louis Symphony, Leonard Slatkin, conductor; RCA). Prokofiev's most popular symphony requires an accomplished orchestra with strings and woodwinds able to negotiate the Russian's tricky, sassy writing, as well as a brass section prepared to blast away with dignity when the time comes, as it often does. It also needs a conductor with an ear attuned to its harmonic piquancies and piston-engine rhythms. Slatkin and his crack orchestra, who are evolving the most exciting orchestral partnership since George Szell transformed the Cleveland Orchestra about 30 years ago, have what it takes...