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Ozawa, 27, is already a conductor honored in many lands, but not in his own. He left Japan four years ago, successively won first place (and 100,000 francs) in the Concours International de Jeunes Chefs d'Orchestre, the Koussevitzky Memorial Scholarship for the best young conductor at Tanglewood...
If a citizen raises his voice in the Dutch coal-mining town of Kerkrade (pop. 50.-ooo), the locals boast, "They can hear it in Belgium and Germany." For the last month, Kerkrade has been heard more clearly than ever-but visitors have been making all the noise. As the...
Cafe Contributors. The concours that ended last week was, by critical consensus, Kerkrade's best. As many as 21 bands paraded simultaneously in the town's big stadium, pumping away together at 21 different tunes. In the enormous (3,500-seat) tent erected for the occasion, the bands...
Relative Quiet. The man who started the noisy affair is 46-year-old Town Clerk Johan ("I'm the worst municipal employee in Holland") Scholtes. Inspired by local band contests, Scholtes decided in 1948 to organize bandsmen on an international scale. He sat down with an atlas, and over...
Sadly, this summer's brass fanfare may be the last. Scholtes has his enemies, who feel that he has won more glory than is proper for a $220-a-month clerk. When he was invited to Salzburg last year and introduced as "beloved Herr Doktor Scholtes," his fellow townsmen...