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...businessman, a lawyer, and a token handyman for whatever project currently occupies the University's attention. And filling those roles are one of the country's leading physicists, the chairman of the mammoth Boston-based Gillette Corporation, the head of a large group of Boston mutual funds, a star Cleveland tax attorney, and the president of a huge shipping company who doubles as one of the $350 million Harvard Campaign's three national co-chairmen...
...conductors and soloists. "This is just to tide them over," says the conductor, who grew up in Pittsburgh and played violin in the orchestra for two seasons. He says he wants to concentrate on composing and guest conducting. "I have been in music administration for 20 years in Berlin, Cleveland and Vienna. This is the first time in two decades when I can just make music." In case he changes his mind, Maazel has commitments to lead several Pittsburgh Symphony concerts over the next two years, including highly visible engagements at New York City's Carnegie Hall and Lincoln...
...past two years, the orchestras of Cleveland, Baltimore, Detroit, Houston, San Francisco and Utah have filled conductorial vacancies, and at least seven other U.S. ensembles are searching. Cleveland, Detroit and San Francisco were forced to reach outside the narrow circle of superstars for Christoph von Dohnányi, Gunther Herbig and Herbert Blomstedt, Europeans relatively obscure to U.S. audiences. Others have breached the prejudice against Americans, as Baltimore did in hiring David Zinman...
Most administrators agree that the current crop of leading conductors is too small and the temptations of jet travel too great for the widespread return of the old-fashioned music director like George Szell in Cleveland or Eugene Ormandy in Philadelphia. Says Gideon Toeplitz, executive director of the Houston Symphony: "If Ormandy were young today, nobody would expect him to stay 40 years with his orchestra." The globetrotting, if-this-is-Tuesday types are not about to be tied down. "It's easy to stand up and beat time and have fancy choreography and a good tailor, but that...
...Cleveland 3, Milwaukee...