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...were, of course, irrepressibly, ubiquitously, impossibly Isaac Stern-a natural force not to be explained. As he approaches his 60th birthday on July 21, he still has not slowed down enough to be closely observed. "We do not know how many hours Isaac lives in a day," says Conductor Zubin Mehta. "We only know that it must be more than...
DIED. José Iturbi, 84, Spanish pianist and conductor who popularized classical music by performing in a medley of 1940s movies like A Song to Remember (1945); of coronary disease; in Los Angeles...
MARRIED. John Williams, 48, hot Hollywood sound-track composer (Jaws I and II, Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back), who succeeded Arthur Fiedler as conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra this year; and Samantha Winslow, thirtyish, a Los Angeles freelance photographer; he for the second time, she for the first; in Boston...
Soviet dissident and writer Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, conductor Sir Georg Solti, novelist Gunter Grass and undersea explorer Jacques Cousteau are among past recipients of honorary degrees. Cronkite follows Rodney Dangerfield and Theodore H. White '38 as Class Day speaker...
...orchestra had been to South Korea, the Soviet Union, every place in the world, and not to Harlem," says Conductor Zubin Mehta. "It was scandalous." Mehta has long championed the idea of special programming for minority audiences. During his years as music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, he took the orchestra out of the concert hall to such locations as the all-black Trinity Baptist Church and the federal prison on Terminal Island. The Abyssinian Church, a social and cultural landmark of Harlem, seemed an appropriate starting point for a similar effort in New York. The Philharmonic...