Word: concertizing
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...supposed to change that. It gave the city an imposing performance space to rival New York City's best and the hope that greater visibility would soon follow. But bricks and mortar can do only so much. The Kennedy Center, which houses an opera house, a concert hall and theaters, did score some coups, including a dazzling visit by the Berlin Opera in 1975 and a now legendary Fidelio conducted by Leonard Bernstein in 1979. Still, the also-ran image persisted; not even the appointment of the respected cellist Mstislav Rostropovich to head the National Symphony Orchestra in 1977 gave...
Slatkin, a baseball fan since childhood whose greatest sacrifice in moving to Washington has been giving up his St. Louis Cardinals season tickets, pointedly devoted his entire opening concert to music by such American composers as Bernstein, Howard Hanson and the Washington-born jazz icon Duke Ellington. "Because you are called the National Symphony," he says, "you have an obligation, not just out of a sense of duty but out of real love, to present the music of your own country. We should be thinking of our own repertoire in the same way that the Austrians view Mozart...
...working alone or in concert with others, fundamentally changed the way scientists looked at the AIDS virus. His breakthrough work in virology, beginning in the mid-1980s, revealed how HIV mounts its attack. His tenacious pursuit of the virus in the first weeks of infection helped show what the body does right in controlling HIV. His pioneering experiments with protease inhibitors helped clarify how the virus ultimately overwhelms the immune system. His work and his insights set the stage for an enormously productive shift in the treatment of AIDS away from the later stages of illness to the critical early...
...feet of videotape. These efforts have already yielded important information: sources told TIME, for example, that the FBI narrowed the window of time when the device was left by analyzing the background music recorded on homemade videotapes and synchronizing the videos' sound with a master tape of the rock concert performed in the park that night. Using the master tape as a timeline, as well as freeze-frames of the bench, the FBI has been able to determine that the bomb, which went off at 1:20 a.m., was left no earlier than midnight...
...Lipton Brisk Iced Tea "Frank Sinatra" A Claymation version of Ol' Blue Eyes hawking iced tea remains the year's cheekiest and most memorable celebrity endorsement. The Chairman's concert is over, the fans want more, but Frank wants out. What gets him energized for an encore? Not a Chivas, Clyde, but a swig of Brisk...