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...Philistine hostesses and barbarous hotels. At the theater, he bemoans the "limited talents, New World phonemes and intonations and slangy lapses, cecity towards the past, Pyrrhonism and so on of this weak cry of players." His only consolation is his Dark Lady, a savvy black soul singer named April Elgar, who rekindles his lechery (but not his performance) and stuns him by sprinkling her jive talk with quotations from Kant...
...Pittsburgh Symphony achieved a high profile, thanks to the PBS television series Previn and the Pittsburgh. Similar in sound to the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Pittsburgh Symphony is a dark-toned ensemble that is especially good in the romantic showpieces and in the music of English composers like Elgar and Vaughan Williams, a passion of the England-based Previn...
...London Philharmonic until 1957; in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England. Working with precision and economy of gesture, Boult insisted on purely musical, never theatrical interpretations. Knighted in 1937, he premiered much modern music in Britain and was a particular champion of such contemporary English composers as Ralph Vaughan Williams, Edward Elgar and Gustav Holst. "It is our duty," he once said, "to do a little of everything modern that is worthwhile, and more than a little of everything English...
Beneath an asthmatic fan, the pianist eases from a tired collection of pop tunes to Elgar's Land of Hope and Glory. It is a curious switch because there is hardly any glory in the seedy Kinshasa bar near the banks of the sluggish Zaïre River and little hope for the country that bears the river's name. Though its debts are small on an international scale-only $5.1 billion-Zaïre is a financial basket case, a country so broke, so mismanaged, so beset by the global recession and, ultimately, so corrupt that...
Elliott Carter: The Early Music (CRI). The cerebral composer has his roots in the folksy American idiom of Ives and Copland, as this disc surprisingly shows. Elgar: Violin Concerto (Deutsche Grammophon). Itzhak Perlman triumphs in Elgar's most restrained major work...