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ELLEN TAAFFE ZWILICH: Symphony No. 1; Celebration; Prologue and Variations. Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra conducted by John Nelson. (New World). JOHN HARBISON: Ulysses' Bow; Samuel Chapter. Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andre Previn; Soprano Susan Larson, with Collage conducted by Harbison. (Nonesuch). There is nothing far-out about either Zwilich, the 1983 Pulitzer prizewinner, or Harbison, currently composer-in-residence with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Both are solid craftsmen whose music is informed by an eloquent melodic voice, and each is especially adept at writing for the symphony orchestra. Zwilich's First Symphony is a big, bold, brassy work, propelled...
Unlike some of the members of his administration, Pusey was always in favor of equal opportunity for women. One summer, he decided to allow women to sing in the Memorial Church choir. On a Sunday in the fall, soprano voices were heard, and it wasn't for days that anyone realized that women were singing. "We got away with that without anyone knowing it," Pusey laughs, attributing his liberal attitude toward women to his Midwestern origins...
...played the title role in Puccini's Madama Butterfly every year since she was 19 years old. Inevitably, Soprano Renata Scotto has developed some strong ideas about the role. Now she has a chance to test them: next month, in a revived production of Butterfly, Scotto will become the first diva ever to direct herself at the Met. "I'm really looking forward to seeing the role from another perspective," she admits. There is a disadvantage to wearing two hats, of course. "I'm used to relaxing in the dressing room when I'm not in rehearsals, or during...
...starry mausoleum. Siegfried slays the dragon Fafner by chopping at a gigantic crab's claw and then pushing over a flimsy set of painted flats. The forest bird who guides the hero to Brunnhilde is a taxidermist's specimen, carried aloft on a stick by a highly visible soprano...
Budgeted at $3 million and cast largely with Americans, the Seattle Ring is not in the vocal class of Bayreuth, the Met or San Francisco. Yet Sooter gives a strong, noble account of himself, as does Baritone Julian Patrick as a robust, crafty Alberich. Soprano Johanna Meier makes a touching, feminine Sieglinde and Tenor Emile Belcourt a slick Loge. In the crucial role of Brunnhilde, Soprano Linda Kelm displays a huge voice and an enviable ease of vocal production, but she needs more refinement and a better stage presence before the part will belong to her. Presiding musically...