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...National League Milwaukee 95 59 .614 St. Louis 87 67 .565 8 Brooklyn 84 70 .545 11 Cincinnati 80 74 .519 15 Philadelphia 77 77 .500 18 New York 69 85 .448 26 Chicago 62 92 .403 33 Pittsburg...
...three years since he joined the paper, Miller has sold his Enquirer sweepings to the Chronicle and three other dailies, two of which-the Erie (Pa.) Times and the Cincinnati Times-Star-have dropped him. The third, the New Orleans Item, deleted the Nixon item from Miller's copy. Memo-Merchant Miller uses the same raw material to tape-record 30-second hotspots that are used around the clock by 15 radio stations (top price: $50 weekly). Now Miller has filmed his first TV keyhole show (which he hopes to sell to WXEX in Richmond, Va.), and will sign...
...runs the Peninsula Festival, the Cincinnati Symphony's energetic Conductor Thor Johnson, 44, tries to present "musical experiences that are not included in wintertime concerts anywhere in the world." Audiences heard the 42-man orchestra wheel through freshly performed American music, including the wisecracking, four-movement Divertimento Burlesca by Los Angeles' Benjamin Lees, 32, and the sprightly Three Songs for Bass and Orchestra by Chicago's late Edward Collins. As a counterpoint to such commissioned modern works, Conductor Johnson offered some elegant, rarely performed echoes of the 18th century; the Sinfonia Concertante in E-Flat, by Johann...
Since then, Conductor Johnson has continued to plug modern music, plus rarely performed classical programs, with the same zeal in Fish Creek that he shows in Cincinnati. Once, after receiving a note from a concertgoer scolding him for playing Bartok, he took the man to lunch, gradually converted him-as he converted many of his audiences. But he is still disturbed by the opposition he occasionally encounters. "The tragedy of the contemporary music scene is people's lack of humility in the presence of art. The public has become such an authority; right away it's good...
...Grass. A native of Wisconsin, Johnson organized his first orchestra when he was 13 ("If no one is going to give you an orchestra, you have to go out and make one"). By the time he took over the Cincinnati in 1947, he had formed half a dozen of. his own orchestras, had also put in a teaching stint at the University of Michigan. To put together his Fish Creek outfit he raided virtually every major orchestra in the U.S. In five seasons Johnson has conducted no fewer than 15 world premieres and eleven U.S. premieres...