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...Showman. To raise money for his orchestra, Katims appears at fashion shows and candlelight musicales. at "Meet the Maestro'' luncheons and "Sympho-neve" dances. He has been known to turn his baton over in midconcert to civic-minded businessmen and, in one case, to a seven-year-old child. To warm an audience up, he may crack jokes between numbers or invite it to join him in singing The Star-Spangled Banner. Last week hard-selling Conductor Katims staged a concert titled "Composium Nineteen-Sixty," featuring works of five resident Seattle composers. Most of the works were pleasantly...
...chief competitor-last week picked a new boss: Monroe Jackson Rathbone, 60, President of Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey) since 1954, he was named chief executive officer to replace retiring Eugene Holman, 65, chairman of the board. Rathbone started as a draftsman with Standard Oil of Louisiana in Baton Rouge in 1921. Working up to vice president in charge of manufacturing, he battled Huey Long over expansion of the oil industry in the state, became president of Louisiana Standard. Ten years later, after Louisiana Standard was merged into Esso, he became president of Esso...
...Davis takes office. Said Long: "Ah'll tell the people of things to come-and things not to come." Probable translation: barred by law from succeeding himself this time, Ole Earl expects to run for Governor again in 1964. Meanwhile, with his estranged wife Blanche holed up in Baton Rouge, Long was doing his homework in a New Orleans nightspot, where works his favorite houri, Stripper Blaze Starr...
...podium was 83-year-old Bruno Walter, who learned the works of Gustav Mahler from the composer himself. Standing beside him was a singer scarcely more than a third his age-Maureen Forrester, 29, the contralto whose big-time career was launched under Walter's baton. With the forces of the New York Philharmonic last week, Conductor Walter and Contralto Forrester gave Carnegie Hall audiences an unforgettable performance of one of Mahler's greatest works, Das Lied von der Erde, whose premiere Walter conducted in Munich half a century...
...ages of man, beginning in "life's sweet-scented morning," and concluding with the peaceful resignation of "The Farewell" ("My heart is still and waits for its deliverance"). Walter's intense performance last week wonderfully illuminated the score's leafy detail, and the orchestra under his baton played with an ardor and mellow tone it rarely displays. As for Contralto Forrester (ably joined by Tenor Richard Lewis), her velvet-piled voice floated over the orchestra with effortless power, adapting itself in a remarkable range of nuances to the work's shadow-flittery moods...