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...week on the tabloid TV A Current Affair to make the point. Even if he were to decide otherwise, he has suffered a mental breakdown. Susan McDougal is separated from him; last week she pleaded not guilty to a California indictment charging her with embezzling $200,000 from symphony conductor Zubin Mehta, whom she served as a financial adviser. Even Leach concedes the whole affair has no potential to be another Watergate; it is entirely possible the Clintons will never face any penalties at all or be asked only to repay some money to Madison Guaranty depositors and be accused...
...traditional German opera-house ladder. Beginning with the Frankfurt Opera, where he was Georg Solti's assistant, Dohnanyi spent time in Lubeck, Cologne and finally his adopted hometown of Hamburg before heading to the shores of Lake Erie. He has ended any doubts about his abilities as a symphonic conductor with performances that combine Szell's rigor, Boulez's unerring ear and a controlled interpretative fire...
...composer of music needs not only a conductor and orchestra (or instrumentalists) but an audience to listen. What artist hasn't dreamt of having his or her art being viewed and appreciated by many generations of the public? So too is the need for sculpture, architecture, archaeology to have its audience...
...marching band marched off, led into the night by their Santa-cap-wearing, baton-waving conductor...
...addition to his 12 albums with the Mothers and his numerous other rock recordings, Zappa collaborated with the likes of composer Pierre Boulez and conductor Zubin Mehta on such pieces as The Perfect Stranger, a collection of chamber music, and 200 Motels, an "opera for television." The self-taught Zappa was as prickly and puckish about his "serious" music as he was about rock. "I write," he declared, "because I am personally amused by what I do, and if other people are amused by it, then it's fine. If they're not, then that's also fine...