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...Conductor Robert Boudreau and his rather grandly named American Wind Symphony Orchestra are bringing something precious to the river towns of Appalachia, the Kentucky bourbon belt and the Mississippi Valley. Essentially, Boudreau has a barge and an idea. The barge is an old coal carrier he got 15 years ago and converted into a floating concert hall. The idea has been with him ever since he graduated from Manhattan's Juilliard School in 1952 and found that there were just not enough jobs available for brass and woodwind players. Being a trumpeter, he understood the problem firsthand...
...that seems to be changing. In the same week that retiring General Manager Rudolf Bing was knighted by Queen Elizabeth, his chosen successor Goeran Gentele (TIME, Dec. 21, 1970) announced that Conductor Rafael Kubelik would join him at the Met (in 1973-74) as the first music director in the company's 88-year history. Both the job and the man are sure to have a great effect on the Met's future. The new music director will have an equal voice in every phase of the Met's artistic operations...
Kubelik was born in 1914 near Prague. He first caught the public eye as piano accompanist for his father Jan Kubelik, the noted Czech violinist, but he comes to his present job after international success as a guest conductor and a long career as a music director of the Czech Philharmonic, the Brno Opera House, Britain's Royal Opera House at Covent Garden and, most recently, the Bavarian Radio Symphony in Munich...
Seiji Ozawa, D.F.A., conductor of the San Francisco Symphony. Maker of loveliness in a soiled universe . . . without him we would be more fearful of a future without a song...
...Radical Chic" was the epigram with which Writer Tom Wolfe skewered a party given by Conductor-Composer Leonard Bernstein and his wife to raise a defense fund for the 13 New York Black Panthers just acquitted of conspiracy (see THE NATION). That widely publicized gathering last year proved to be a debacle for Bernstein-he was booed on the podium, picketed by the Jewish Defense League, editorially scolded by the New York Times, and flooded with hate-mail. Nothing daunted, however, the persistent Bernsteins last week gave another political party in their Park Avenue pad. This time, it was Catholic...