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...Emmanuel Chamber Orchestra--Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury St., Boston--8:30 p.m.--Russell Sherman, piano, and Craig Smith and David Hoose, conductors--works of Mozart, Bach, Haydn, Stravinsky. Info...
...scene during October 24-30, as the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) holds its annual World Music Festival at the New England Conservatory. Through the efforts of composer and former NEC director Gunther Schuller, the festival, never before held in the United States, will involve 13 concerts of chamber and orchestral music by composers from 29 countries...
Performers will include the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Seiji Ozawa, the New England Conservatory Orchestra under Gunther Schuller, the University of Iowa Orchestra under James Dixon, and an orchestra of Boston musicians under Richard Pittman. Many chamber ensembles, including Boston Musica Viva, Collage, the Celveland String Quartet, the Pro Arte String Quartet, and the Societe de Musique contemporaine du Quebec, will also be appearing. Most of the concerts will be in the Conservatory's venerable Jordan Hall, which should help with acclimatization to even the most unfamiliar sounds...
That feeling runs strongly among the South's White House members. Some note happily that black Representatives Barbara Jordan and Andrew Young often choose to sit in the House chamber with white Southern friends rather than with Northern liberals or blacks. Others laugh about how some white Southern votes are now cast to block antibusing amendments backed by Michigan and Massachusetts Congressmen. Most of the South's congressional Democrats point with particular pride to the fact that on the 1975 roll call for a seven-year extension of the Voting Rights Act, their vote in favor...
Equally important are the vigorous efforts by Southern states to lure businessmen fed up with high taxes, physical decay and demanding unions in the old urban centers of the North. Georgia, for example, working with information supplied by its Chamber of Commerce, zeroes in on "suspect companies," which are feeling the pain of ever deeper tax bites in the North. Once a year about 35 executives are given a lavish "red carpet" tour of the state. Each tour brings an average of $50 million in capital investment and 1,000 new jobs...