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This collaborative childhood autobiography evokes dreamy days in a sprawling house in East Bengal, where the Goddens' father was a steamship agent, and where, as petted and pampered little memsahibs, they had syces to care for their pony, dirzees to whip them up frilly frocks, ayahs and bearers to...
The first half of the program, conducted by the HRO's James Yannatos, opened with Wagner's "Siegfried Idyll" for orchestra alone. This piece is performed fairly often, I suppose because it has a pretty tone and absorbing orchestration. But the development is not especially interesting or moving, and the...
All of this activity was powerless, however, to put interest into Brahms Ave Maria for women's chorus and orchestra. Like the Siefried Idyll, it is pretty and pleasant, but dull. More than most composers, Brahms wrote music that varied from the great to the mediocre, and this piece is...
It's hard for a piece preceding the Ninth not to sound like a curtain-raiser: Everybody comes to hear what follows, but has to sit through the opening number anyway. Since Leinsdorf decided to preface the Ninth with something, Siegfried Idyll was a good choice. Unfortunately for those, like...
Then, suddenly, the idyll collapsed. The tower walls turned out to be not ivory but papier-maché, and in the winds of controversy they all came tumbling down. By spring, 1962, the Radcliffe girl found herself exposed to public view on a not-entirely-comfortable plateau. The slick-paper...