Perhaps you readers have heard the term “house conductor.” This translates as a musician who works or worked more or less exclusively in radio or recordings, and likely had administrative duties as well, such as the now-forgotten Piero Coppola who ran the artistic side of French HMV in the Thirties besides presiding over many recordings and good [...]
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New from Arthur Bloomfield’s Time Machine: Visiting the Oldtime Conductor Lorenzo Molajoli
August 17th, 2011
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From Arthur Bloomfield’s Time Machine: Conductors Vittorio Gui and Franco Ghione
July 29th, 2011
Here is the sixth in Arthur Bloomfield’s occasional series of Time Machine trips into the world of opera three or four generations ago, focusing on the conductors’ art. [Conductor Vittorio Gui; resized image of a historical photograph.] VITTORIO GUI (1885-1975) It’s not my habit to lunch with countesses, but some years ago thanks to the [...]
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Dropping In On The Adler Years At The San Francisco Opera With Historian Arthur Bloomfield – The 1980 Season . . .
June 9th, 2011
A few articles back I was trumpeting the good marksmanship of SFO boss Kurt Herbert Adler in hiring strong, interesting conductors. Surely none of his finds was better than Niksa Bareza, a Croatian with excellent credentials (Scala, Bolshoi, Vienna etc.) who studied with the great Hermann Scherchen, pillar of Westminster Records’ wonderful catalog in the [...]