NEW YORK, Jan.

Orchestra Itinerary Packed With Exotic Musical Destinations DAYTON, Ohio, Sept.

By Garaud MacTaggart From a purely selfish listening standpoint, it is good to see so many Buffalo Philharmonic musicians playing around the area this spring.

By Tim Smith, The Baltimore Sun May 17--After hearing one of his military bands play an arrangement of music from Richard Strauss' opera Elektra, England's George V reportedly said, "His majesty does not know what the band has just played, but it is never to be played again." Even now, 99 years after the premiere of Elektra, it is bound to strike some listeners as a little scary.

By John Farrell The ingredients are the same: music and poetry, poetry and music. But the distance in feeling, mood and artistic intent in the two works presented by Long Beach Opera over the weekend at the Center Theater could hardly have been further apart.