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MONTREUX-VEVEY FESTIVAL (Aug. 29-Oct. 5) offers a varied but traditional program, including Mozart by Yehudi Menuhin's Festival Orchestra, Bach played on the organ by Munich's Karl Richter, Corelli and Vivaldi by I Musici di Roma, and even a night of Indian music with Sitarist Debabrata Chaudhury and Tabla Virtuoso Sitaram. The highlight of the festival will take place on Sept. 17, when the Orchestre de la Radio Suisse Italienne will present a concert of Mozart and Haydn atop 10,000-ft.-high Diablerets Glacier...
...scrambles the signals of standard programming to produce an endless flow of kaleidoscopic images. Both Siegel and Tadlock are working toward what Nam June Paik, 36, a Korean-born virtuoso of electronic sculpture, calls "the Silent TV Station, transmitting only beautiful 'mood art,' the TV version of Vivaldi...
...HANDEL was a prodigal master, an adaptive musical fountainhead who composed vast quantities of epic choral dramas, superb operas, incidental and instrumental works. His creative fertility was so prodigious that his 97 volumes of autographs exceed the combined complete works of Bach and Beethoven. Although a contemporary of Corelli, Vivaldi, Scarlatti, and Telemann. Handel beggared their combined achievements with his limitless genius. Yet while the scope of Bach, Handel's only contemporary equal, is now fully grasped, the boundless wealth of Handel has been reduced to one or two operatic arias, a couple of organ concertos, the Water and Fireworks...
...though piccolo means small, the Piccolo Teatro Musicale stands for something very big in music today-a burgeoning interest in the baroque and post-baroque. Its leader, Renato Fasano, has played a pioneering role in bringing back Vivaldi and Corelli with his celebrated chamber ensemble Virtuosi di Roma. Now he is doing the same thing for the chamber operas of such composers as Paisiello, Cimarosa and Rossini...
...message of Joffrey's company seems to be that youthful enthusiasm can easily atone for an occasional ensemble roughness. Its repertory is impressively varied, including several company-created works by Joffrey and Gerald Arpino that cover the field from delicate, classic grace (Viva Vivaldi, Pas des Déesses) to revivals of such historic works as Kurt Jooss's famous old antiwar shocker The Green Table...