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Conflict broke out the year before Leinsdorf left, when, for the first time in the history of the orchestra, the orchestra members refused to give the traditional Christmas gift to the conductor. The animosity between maestro and players became more apparent when trumpeter Roger Voisin "stepped down" from his position in the first chair after an incident in a public performance during which he allegedly misplayed a passage deliberately to cause Leinsdorf embarrassment. With the orchestra's prestige falling apart, it was obvious that new blood was needed, and Leinsdorf's resignation was not too surprising. His successor, William Steinberg...
Since their arrest last April, ten of the Panthers have been jailed in lieu of bail so high ($100,000 apiece) that many black New Yorkers now see the defendants as victims of white racism. Some Liberal whites agree. Conductor Leonard Bernstein has dunned his rich friends for the Panther defense fund, and last week an interracial group of ministers tried-and failed-to mortgage their churches to raise the Panthers' bail. While in the eyes of many, the Panthers are automatically guilty, to emotional sympathizers, they will be innocent whatever the trial decides...
...treated with lavish care by Conductor Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra. Capacity audiences first in Philadelphia, then last week in Manhattan, roared approval of Shostakovich's grim, powerful music and offered special bravos to Ormandy and the black, Slavic sound of Finnish Baritone Tom Krause...
...conductor of the Super Chiefs is Coach Hank Stram, a spry, spruce little fellow (5 ft. 7 in., 205 Ibs.) who looks like a Cheshire cat, dresses like Cecil Beaton, talks like Otto von Bismarck and operates like Jimmy Valentine. "Every team," he says, "should have its own style that reflects the personality of the coach." The Kansas City Chiefs are a mirror image of both sides of Stram's personality: courteous, reliable and trustworthy off the field; coruscating, resourceful and a little terrifying on it. When it comes to dealing with players, Stram has every grain of Vince...
...Peculiar Magic. Much of the trouble lay with the operas. Verdi's Falstaff, with its quicksilver score and its well-drawn characters, is a director's and a conductor's dream. Cav and Pag are genre pieces in a style known as verismo (truthful) to distinguish their homely subject matter from the myths and legends fashionable at the time...