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...photos he reviewed each year for possible inclusion in the collection. "You could start your own archive from my wastebasket," he says. But one would need the key to the complicated and precise Bettmann cataloguing system, which, he claims with a smile, "is based on Bach. It's all in the music." As it happens, Bettmann, now retired in Florida, plans to devote his time to his "hang-up," a biography of Bach. "I'm a scholar, a bookman," he says. "I am not personally crazy about visual media...
...intensive lessons which followed its discovery, she probably would not have developed a serious committment to music, and would instead have remained "one of those kids who takes four years of piano and hated every minute of it." Certainly, she would not be about to become the Bach Society Orchestra's first female conductor...
...would beat out four competing males to win the spot. "I hadn't done anything like this since I'd come to Harvard, and I was very nervous," she says. In fact, James E. Ross '81, the orchestra's present conductor who knew her from her month of Bach Society membership, had to convince her to take the audition, which involved an interview with a panel of BSO members and a fifteen minute stint with the orchestra...
DIED. Karl Richter, 54, German conductor, harpsichordist and organist who founded the Munich Bach Choir and Orchestra, through which he became internationally known for his rigorous, emotional interpretations of Bach and as a leader of the Bach-Handel revival of the '50s and '60s; of a heart attack; in Munich. Richter, who in recent years was himself labeled a romantic by more severely "authentic" Bach interpreters, attributed the zeal for authenticity to "a certain snobbishness" and said: "As a whole, properly performed, Bach always will stay right in the spirit of the present...
...five Yo-Yo played easily three of the Bach suites that lesser mortals have grown gray practicing. At seven he was brought to New York, where his father had been offered a job teaching at a school that Stern's children attended. Connections were made. Yo-Yo performed on the Johnny Carson show. He was taken to play for Pablo Casals. "What are you doing with this child?" demanded the patriarch. "You must let him go and play on the street...