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...discovery, she probably would not have developed a serious committment to music, and would instead have remained "one of those kids who takes four years of piano and hated every minute of it." Certainly, she would not be about to become the Bach Society Orchestra's first female conductor...
...Relying on candid interviews with Oppenheimer's Los Alamos colleagues, as well as rare footage of the test site itself, code-named Trinity. Else captures the spirit of the project and the nearly 6000 scientists who labored for four years on it. Oppenheimer, whom one former colleague calls the "conductor" of a huge orchestra, emerges in relation to his atomic baby. The man orchestrated our passage into the atomic age, hoping to improve the lot of mankind, only to be crucified in 1954 as a security risk and a Communist sympathizer...
Well it might be. Born in 1936 in Derry, Pa. (pop. 3,400), near Pittsburgh, Boyer is the son of a railroad conductor and brakeman. Early on he was more inclined toward football than scholarship. His high school class voted him "most athletic"; his own ambition, he wrote presciently in his yearbook, was "to become a successful businessman." He also developed a taste for science. Encouraged by his hard-driving high school coach, who doubled as a science and math instructor, he went on to pursue those subjects at nearby St. Vincent College, a demanding Benedictine school. A few summers...
DIED. Howard Hanson, 84. director of the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y., from 1924 to 1964 and a composer whose Fourth Symphony won a Pulitzer Prize in 1944; in Rochester. Also a teacher and conductor, he fought tirelessly, if unsuccessfully, against progressive trends in American classical music...
...victims promptly rise up to rebuke and terrify him. Dexter has taken a sunny approach to this nightmare. Harassed frogs are still genial; abused cats take a philosophical view. In L'Enfant Hockney creates his richest, most brilliant sets and French Conductor Manuel Rosenthal coaxes the most subtle performance from the Met orchestra. It has been said that the Ravel work is such a perfect distillation of orchestral and vocal art that it resists dramatization, that no physical embodiment of it is possible. Perhaps.Yet the Met does justice to the masterpiece with an approach that is both witty...