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...Baton Rouge...
...DEMISE of the Charles Playhouse is only the most recent manifestation of what everybody thinks he knows about theater. Has the baton been passed to music or to film, as evidenced by the Orson Welles' opening a second theater at the time the Charles close? The lethargy of Boston theater, any producer will say, stems from money. There is no money. As stated in the October 30 Crimson, the directors of the Charles decided to close because the prospects were not good. But the prospects for support in a city with only a handful of commercial theaters devoted to local...
...looks like a big bird impersonating an adolescent. Mounting the podium, this shambling creature bows low-to the audience, to the orchestra-then, in some sort of mystical transformation, comes up a man. With a snap, the backbone locks firmly into place. The right hand is suddenly holding the baton high over the head. Slowly, powerfully, the left hand rises like a warning semaphore. Quickly, precisely, the right hand gives the downbeat...
Perhaps that was why Fleisher, apparently unconsciously, seemed to be pedaling in Haydn's Sinfonia Concertante. He did not use a baton. Later he confided that last winter, rehearsing an amateur orchestra, he "started with a stick but found that it took on a life of its own, and did things I did not want it to do, like the Sorcerer's Apprentice." No danger of that this time. The "Haffner" Symphony was a model of Mozart interpretation-clean, clear and crisp-and in Mozart's Concerto in C Major, K.503, Fleisher afforded Soloist Claude Frank...
...other Western capitals, Amsterdam has had its quota of student barricades, tear gas volleys and police baton charges. The youthful protesters, who used to be known as Provos (for provocateurs), rioted over almost everything from Crown Princess Beatrix's lavish wedding in 1966, when they tossed smoke bombs at the royal carriage, to the country's critical housing shortage. But new tactics were introduced early this year by the Kabouters, or Pixies, who decided that fun and games might be more effective than paving stones and smoke bombs...