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Clark's principal mentors were Walter Pater and Bernard Berenson. To the latter he maintained a long though not always harmonious apprenticeship. In an autobiography, Another Part of the Wood, he spoke of Berenson "perched on the pinnacle of a mountain of corruption." In return, Berenson complained that when Clark sold a painting, he was a gentleman improving his collection, whereas when Berenson did the same thing, he was a dealer turning a profit. It is certainly true that Clark's inherited wealth-his great-great-grandfather had invented the cotton spool-enabled him to do his work...
Szell died in 1970, and Levine's apprenticeship came to an end. What he required now was a break, and luck was obliging. The San Francisco Opera needed a conductor for the last few Toscas of the season and hired Levine. By chance, a Met administrator heard him, and was impressed. Levine made his Met debut the next year, also with Tosca. His career began a rapid ascent, aided by Levine's manager, Ronald Wilford of Columbia Artists Management Inc. Wilford oversees the livelihoods of many major conductors, including Mstislav Rostropovich of the National Symphony and Seiji Ozawa...
Neither end denies, through, that his apprenticeship served a valuable purpose. "I never knew how important experience was," Fleming says. "You hear so much about how hard it is for rookies in the pros and you don't actually believe it. But there really is such a feel necessary for the game, and you don't have that right away...
Topics for study groups will range from "The Politics of Alternative Energy" to "Political Apprenticeship: How to Start Planning Your Next Ten Years...
That song, quiet, terrifying and seductive, is like a lullaby of doom, but it has the flavor of an old ballad. Indeed, Thompson's apprenticeship as part of the seminal English folk-rock band Fairport Convention provides a kind of melodic continuity with the past. "Folk doesn't mean anything any more," he says. "Our strongest roots are in British and Celtic traditional music. In terms of song structure, we come out of the Scottish ballad form more than anything else. But what we play is rock and roll." Thompson, son of a Scotland Yard detective who played...