Word: clevelandism
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...recent show, for example, a middle-aged woman outlined her situation to ever-concerned, yet ever-cheerful co-host Peter Marshall. She, her husband their six children planned to move from Cleveland, where the couple found no work, to California. Since arriving alone in the West, she had found work as a waitress ("a respectable job," Marshall assured her), but her husband unexpectedly found a job back in Cleveland. Neither she nor her husband, she explained, could afford to quit and risk unemployment. Separated from her family, without enough money to visit, the woman explained her "fantasy", she wanted...
...Cleveland Orchestra. Under the late George Szell, the Clevelanders were honed into an ensemble of breathtaking precision, eminently suited to the music of Mozart. During the regime of Conductor Lorin Maazel (1972-82), Szell's high technical standards were maintained, but the sound of the orchestra became fuller, richer and more flexible, and thus up to the challenge of the romantic repertory; by the end of Maazel's tenure, the Cleveland Orchestra was the best-sounding band in the land. Today, standards have unavoidably slipped a bit as the orchestra awaits the arrival in 1984-85 of Maazel...
...Overseeing all this is the music director, who balances the orchestra's component parts and gives the ensemble character. He breathes a unified spirit into an aggregation that may number more than 100. "It is the artistic vision of the conductor that impels everyone forward," says Kenneth Haas, Cleveland's general manager. "Without someone of great vision, great ears, great interpretations, great depth, you can have the greatest musicians on the face of the earth and you still won't have a great orchestra...
While patrician orchestras such as Boston, Cleveland and Philadelphia, with their large subscriber lists and potent fund-raising capabilities, continue to operate without a financial loss, others are almost perennially troubled. The Buffalo Philharmonic, nearly $1 million in debt, scaled back its season last year from 48 to 40 weeks; the Detroit Symphony, suffering along with its city from the recession, has an accumulated deficit of nearly $2.7 million. Despite Rostropovich's name value, the National Symphony showed a $2.2 million loss last year...
Chicago 9, Cleveland...