Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...More than 33,000 birds may have died in Prince William Sound alone. To save the 6.5 million sandpipers and 10 million other shorebirds starting to migrate through the region, wildlife experts are trying to scare them away from their favorite stopping-off sites. The naturalists have set up big- barreled propane-powered cannons that are timed to go off noisily at regular intervals. They even erected 37 scarecrows dressed in Salvation Army clothing...
...later, halfway around the world, the courtly Andre Previn decided that the Los Angeles Philharmonic was not big enough for both him and the orchestra's strong-willed managing director Ernest Fleischmann, whose high- handed ways alienated Previn. "It has become obvious to me there is no room for a music director," said Previn. The startling announcements fueled a flurry of who-goes-where speculation that had already begun in Paris, where the new Opera de la Bastille is seeking an artistic director to replace the fired Daniel Barenboim (who has been named Sir Georg Solti's successor with...
Every few years the music stops and a handful of big-name box-office attractions make a grab for one another's chairs. It happened a few years ago when Previn left the Pittsburgh Symphony; Lorin Maazel quit the Vienna State Opera and landed in Pittsburgh; Riccardo Muti, 47, conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, added the directorship of La Scala in Milan to his resume; La Scala's former leader, Claudio Abbado, 55, headed for Vienna. About the only one who did not go anywhere then was the New York Metropolitan Opera's James Levine...
Behind Slatkin is a group of younger conductors seeking their break into the big leagues. Among them: Finland's Esa-Pekka Salonen, 30, principal conductor of the Swedish Radio Symphony; England's Simon Rattle, 34, who leads the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in Britain; and Russian-born Semyon Bychkov, 36, who this month will jump from the Buffalo Philharmonic to the Orchestre de Paris. All must wait until a death or a retirement creates an opening in the front ranks...
...drop-out generation, golf meant Bob Hope and his U.S.O. tours, neatly pressed clothes, graying hair trimmed high around the ears and cut well above the collar. Country-club golf was a symbol of everything the young held in contempt, a bastion, perhaps the last, of the back-slapping big business deal. Golf was something for Dad, but not for the new generation...