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Last week Silverman's experimental "pop opera," Elephant Steps, had its premiere at Tanglewood in Massachusetts, and it sounded-well, like a giant radio with its dials spinning crazily. Dissonant 12-tone textures melted into a gypsy air. A rock beat crashed into Renaissance madrigals. Ragtime, ragas, taped noises and electronic bleeps tumbled together in a swirl of sound that satirized serious music as much as schmalz. Silverman says it was all meant to be "fun, like raping the styles...
...TANGLEWOOD, Lenox, Mass. The Boston Symphony, under the direction of Erich Leinsdorf, opens its eight-week season on July 5 with an all-Mozart program and ends on Aug. 25 with an evening of Brahms...
...FESTIVAL "Boston Pops III." Arthur Fiedler conducts the Boston Pops Orches tra in a special concert at Tanglewood in Massachusetts, with Saxophonist Stan Getz as guest soloist...
...many of America's major music makers, festivals are the time for summer reruns. Most of this year's programming, at such places as Tanglewood, Saratoga and Ravinia, bears out the thesis: safe, familiar fare for the listener who prefers to leave his brains at home. It took the usually hidebound Metropolitan Opera to break the mold and demonstrate that a festival can also include the thinking man as well...
...change his sweat-soaked jacket at intermission. "In it, like the genius he was, Beethoven was asking for things ahead of his time which probably could not be done." As Leinsdorf, the orchestra and the singers-particularly Soprano Hanne-Lore Kuhse and Tenor George Shirley-showed at Tanglewood, they can be done...