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Other members of the search committee, which was formed about a year ago, include Glen Bowersock, former Harvard dean and associate of the Princeton Institute for Advanced Studies, Richard Caves, professor of Economics, Angelica Rubenstein, and official of the Guggenheim Museum in New York, and John W. Strauss, a Fogg Visiting committee member...
...shocker Lulu, when the complete opera-with its suppressed third act orchestrated by Friedrich Cerha-was given its world premiere in Paris in 1979. The late conductor Karl Böhm, mindful of Stratas' electric stage presence and lithe figure, chose her for his filmed version of Richard Strauss's decadently erotic opera Salome. And her capacity, both vocally and dramatically, to range from angelic purity to raw urgency made her a superb choice to sing Mimi opposite Tenor José Carreras' Rodolfo in Franco Zeffirelli's spectacularly realistic new production...
...course. Lintgen simply holds a disc flat in front of him, turning it slightly this way and that and peering along its grooves through his thick glasses. After a few seconds he calmly announces, as the case may be, ''Stravinsky's Rite of Spring," or "Strauss's Alpine Symphony," or "Janacek's Sinfonietta...
...Strauss: Waltzes, Polkas, Marches and Overtures (Deutsche Grammophon, 3 LPs). Felicitous music by the Strauss family in sleek readings by Karajan and the Berliners...
...release. The first section is for the instrumental ensemble only, unaided by electronics. The tension is created by rapid, repeated-note figurations and massed sonorities. The release, such as it is, comes from a series of eerie tremolos and trills reminiscent of the doom-laden flute flutterings in Strauss's opera Salome. The soloists enter with a computer-assisted arpeggio, vibrating and echoing over the six large loudspeakers that are stationed around the hall. Then the soloists and the ensemble interact, responding to each other in the manner of Renaissance polyphony...