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...Acting General Manager Schuyler Chapin, and with considerable help from Leading Lady Marilyn Horne. "Gentele felt that I had the ingredients within me instinctively to make the kind of Carmen he wanted," Horne recalls. They just may have included the fact that she owns one of the great soprano voices of the century, and controls its reach and richness with a mind and manner unsurpassed by any soprano singing opera today. Horne also proves, to the surprise of many, that she can act -not as well as she can sing, but well enough. As Carmen, her face is a catty...
McCracken relies too much on falsetto in soft, high passages, and Baritone Tom Krause (Escamillo) moves more like a waiter than a bullfighter; yet both contribute to the spirit of the show. The biggest surprise in the cast is the Micaela of Soprano Adriana Maliponte - vocally ravishing, physically beguiling - who, it is to be hoped, will be heard soon as Manon or Mimi...
...train is a foot too long." A short man with an advancing paunch, soft, silver-gray hair over the collar, and kind, blue, bespectacled eyes, Adler can be ultra-suave when kissing a board member's wife, making a courtly progress through a drawing room, or wooing a soprano. "You will luff the tenarr I have for you," he coos into the phone. "He is so-o-o hawn-zum." But he is unmovable on the subject of contracts and rehearsals...
When the retirement of Timpanist Saul Goodman was announced by the New York Philharmonic, Conductor Pierre Boulez gave him a watch. That was like giving Soprano Birgit Nilsson a pitch pipe. As head of the Philharmonic's percussion section, Goodman has been keeping time for the orchestra for 46 years. His rolls, ruffs and drags were as familiar and indispensable to Mengelberg and Toscanini in their day as to Bernstein and Boulez in theirs. Goodman's departure this week will terminate one of the longest tenures in the history of American symphonic life. As Philharmonic Snare Drummer "Buster...
...week festival and workshop at London's arts complex on the south bank of the Thames, participating in no fewer than seven programs with astonishing versatility. One night he was conducting a chamber orchestra in Mozart, another playing jazz piano with Guitarist Barney Kessel, another accompanying Soprano Judith Raskin at the piano in Schubert lieder, another joining the Yale String Quartet in Brahms chamber music. After a brief rest, Previn will pick up his regular routine, recording, composing, appearing in TV specials, dashing off essays for Punch and conducting about 100 concerts a year with the L.S.O. and other...