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...DORIS MONTEUX New York City...
There was a large banquet that evening honoring Monteux's 75th birthday. Having had experience with banquets for some 50 years, the Maitre decided we had better have a four-course dinner before leaving, be prepared, as it were, for the inevitable fruit cup, tasteless mashed potatoes and chicken, topped off by the usual melted ice. So we ordered an iced melon, sole au vin blanc, new potatoes, endive braised, Edam cheese and toasted crackers, fresh strawberry ice, and Vienna coffee with whipped cream. This is why we were late, why I am on a diet...
Last week, at the opening of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera, the Hoffmann score was eminently well played under Conductor Pierre Monteux, who at 80 is the most irrepressible prodigy in the music world...
...real star was Pierre Monteux. -who stood like a tree, moving only the tip of his baton, and made Hoffmann sound better than many listeners thought possible. How he did it: he went light on such over-familiar numbers as the Barcarolle, took them perhaps a soupqon faster than usual, and when the drama got heavy, he made it even more dramatic by whipping the percussion section into thunder...
Champagne Diet. Monteux gets his results partly by impeccable musicianship, partly by his remarkable vitality, partly by personal appeal. Says Tenor Tucker: "I love him. I want to hug him the minute...