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...ELECTRIC CONDUCTOR: PW and Kirkus both give starred reviews to "The Letters of Arturo Toscanini," edited by Harvey Sachs (Knopf; April 28). Says Kirkus, "A rich and vivid collection of the great conductor?s correspondence. Music historian Sachs (no relation) learned of these letters after publishing his definitive biography (?Toscanini,? 1978), and while they contain no startling revelations, they give us a much better understanding of a man who famously refused all interviews and wrote no memoirs. In his introduction, Sachs predicts that Toscanini?s numerous affairs will garner the most attention, and there are indeed many, many pages...
MICHAEL WARD Railroad Conductor...
...singer and ukulele player for the Mahina Stars, a group that plays Hawaiian pop and is well known in Japan. It was while studying in art school that he started a kitsch pop band called Flipper's Guitar with former junior-high buddy Kenji Ozawa (nephew of conductor Seiji Ozawa). A demo tape of theirs found its way to Polystar Records (where Oyamada is still based) and the duo were immediately signed...
DIED. MICHAEL HAMMOND, 69, composer-conductor who took over as chair of the National Endowment for the Arts two weeks ago; of undisclosed causes; in Washington. A proponent of the importance of art in cognitive development, Hammond had previously been dean of Rice University's music school for 15 years...
While your news article on the Holden choirs (News, “Holden Choirs Singing the Blues,” Feb. 6) rightly calls attention to the flawed conductor rotation system the choirs currently use, it unfortunately gives a distorted impression of student opinion concerning Associate Conductor Constance DeFotis...