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...flashed into musical prominence as a composer (Fancy Free, Trouble in Tahiti, On the Town), and is regarded as one of the most talented of U.S. conductors. Two years ago, with five days' preparation, he directed Milan's La Scala orchestra in the seldom-staged Medea of Cherubini, starring Maria Callas. To composing and conducting, he added teaching at Tanglewood and Brandeis University, spends his spare moments with his wife, Actress Felicia Montealegre, and three-year-old daughter. He worries that he may be scattering his talent: "Diversification means you can arrive brand-new and fresh at each...
Stylish Stout. Last month she undertook still another operatic assignment, in the name part of Cherubini's Medea, done in concert form in Manhattan's Town Hall. The role is one of opera's most difficult, but it held no terrors for Soprano Farrell. During rehearsal her attitude was playful. She kidded the French horn player for a minute burble, grinned delightedly at the violins when they produced a soaring harmony. While her voice was deep in Medea's wells of grief, jealousy, and hatred, she artlessly combed her hair for a press photographer...
Conductor Leonard Bernstein was in a swivet. Traveling in Italy, he had agreed to conduct a regular performance of Milan's proud La Scala opera, a thing which no American had ever done before. He had five days in which to learn the score-Luigi Cherubini's Medea-but he had never conducted grand opera in his life and never even heard of Cherubini's Medea. To make things worse, he had a case of bronchitis. Finally, the score with which he had to work dated from 1797, and, like most old books, it gave off dust...
...year's favorites were Beethoven's monumental Ninth Symphony (conducted by Arturo Toscanini) and a much more esoteric score, Berlioz' symphonic scenes, Harold in Italy. Last week Billboard's music sleuths found the public foraging still farther afield. Among the ten best-selling concert LPs: Cherubini's Symphony in D (Victor), Prokofiev's Symphony No. 7 (Columbia), and Vaughan Williams' Pastoral Symphony (London...
...Italian program: Cherubini's only symphony, Catalani's prelude from La Wally, Respighi's Fountains of Rome. Conductor: Arturo Toscanini...