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...Meistersinger. But an opera house must also be active in reviving worthy pieces and commissioning new ones. Under Levine's artistic administration, the Met has successfully explored new territory in such operas as Poulenc's fervid Dialogues of the Carmelites, Berg's thorny Lulu, Kurt Weill's sardonic Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny and the ebullient French triple bill Parade. In standard works, such as Verdi's Don Carlo and Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, the company has used the latest scholarship to offer versions that are as musicologically accurate as possible...
N.K.C. Wind Esamble - Frank Battish conducting; music of Massaino Mosart, Weill Rorem and Bassett; Jordan Hall, 290 Huntin; for Avenue; Wednesday...
Previous $1 million grants have come from Atlantic Richfield and from an alumnus, Frank Weill...
...companies. No one was more surprised than Amex officials when they learned that they were replacing the ailing Manville Corp. on the blue-chip list that includes Exxon, General Motors, A. T. & T. and other giant firms. Said Amex Chairman James Robinson III: "We are simply delighted." Added Sanford Weill, chairman of the firm's executive committee and Shearson/American Express, the second largest U.S. brokerage: "I pinched myself to make sure it was true...
Stratas met Lenya during the rehearsals for Weill's Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny at the Met in 1979. At first Lenya made Stratas nervous; she sensed the older woman's resentment at being supplanted in one of her roles. "It was hard for me to see that shock of red hair and that stern face in the empty house," remembers Stratas. "She was Jenny and I thought that I was hopeless." Only later, as Lenya was dying, did Stratas learn that her performance had deeply affected her colleague-so much so that Lenya gave...