Word: symphonicment
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Dictators might have envied the cult of personality that centered on Arturo Toscanini in America. For a half-century he reigned supreme in the popular estimation as the world's greatest conductor, and when he died in 1957 at the age of 89, the New York Times spoke for the...
The notion of a country-rock and torch-ballad singer fronting an electronic avant-garde ensemble may seem fairly far out, but it appeared to be a normal idea to Composer Philip Glass. Last week the minimalist music master completed a five-show, three-city tour showcasing Songs from Liquid...
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...
After an extraordinary 44-year tenure, the Hungarian-born Ormandy was succeeded in 1980 by Italian Conductor Riccardo Muti, now 44. Musical standards had slipped during Ormandy's last years, but under Muti things began to change. Out went the creamy, homogenized textures Ormandy had favored; in their place came...
The whole picture is like that: too much of a noble thing. Spielberg has chosen to elegize the story by romanticizing it, swathing the characters in Norman Rockwell attitudes, a meddlesome symphonic score, and a golden fairy dust that shines through the windows like God's blessing. For every scene...