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...Goren Gentele, came from the state-subsidized Royal Opera House in Stockholm. Gentele was killed in a car crash only 18 days after he took over. His most tangible legacy was the appointment of the first music director in the Met's 90-year history, Czech-born Conductor Rafael Kubelik. It is an indication of the deep trouble at the Met these days that Kubelik resigned under pressure last week after only six months in one of the most powerful posts in opera...
Dvorak: Nine Symphonies (Berlin Philharmonic, Rafael Kubelik conducting; Deutsche Grammophon; 9 LPs; $49.50). Those who like their Dvorak in plural doses, but with budgets to balance, may safely investigate the late George Szell's album of the last three and best symphonies (Columbia; 3 LPs; $ 11.98). Most other fans of the Czech nationalist will want to save their pennies for this set. Kubelik's surging way with the music catches its color and drama and seems to belie the uneven moments in some of the early symphonies. The Berlin Philharmonic, reduced so often to a static silkiness...
Marriage Revealed. Jean-Claude Killy, 30, French superskier whose downhill dashes through the Alps in 1968 resulted in three Olympic gold medals; and Daniele Gaubert, 29, racy French actress (Camille 2000) and former daughter-in-law of the Dominican Republic's late dictator Rafael Trujillo; he for the first time, she for the second; in Archamps, France...
...RAFAEL R. JAMES...
...Rafael, Calif...