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...Shame on TIME for not including Jorge Mester in its top "cadre of gifted conductors." He is 32 and conductor of the Louisville Symphony...
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Last week the 90-member St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and its conductor, Eleazar de Carvalho, packed up, bade Kiel a long-awaited farewell, and began life anew in Powell Symphony Hall, named for Shoe Executive Walter S. Powell, whose widow had provided a generous endowment for the move. But unlike the new concert halls in Manhattan and Los Angeles, Powell is no monument to architectural modernity. As befits one of the nation's oldest professional orchestras,* the hall is actually the 42-year-old St. Louis Theater, a prime specimen of the garish era of movie-palace construction...
...Harvard Band announced the election of the following officers for 1968-69: Robert Whittemore '69, manager; Donald Tuckwiller '70, co-student conductor; Timothy Feige '70, treasurer; Michael Silver '70, alumni relations director; William van Arsdall '70, record manager; Daniel O'-Connell '70, concert master...
...Jews. In Italy, he flustered musical circles by picketing La Scala with musicians who were protesting a cut in state subsidies for opera. A few weeks ago, he outraged the New York musical establishment by vehemently rejecting any possibility that he might become Leonard Bernstein's successor as conductor of the New York Philharmonic. "Artistically it would not be a step up for me," he said. "My orchestra is better than the New York Philharmonic." To compound the offense, he added that New York's musicians "step over conductors"-thus expressing publicly what many young conductors feel privately...