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...President's more popular days, McNamara was a lightning rod for criticism. Now he had become a more direct conductor into the White House on the eve of a very tough election-year battle. He is too intelligent not to have realized this and not to recognize that he had lost a mite of the influence he had previously commanded...
...amplifiers, others-Lukas Foss, Gunther Schuller and the Russian Edison Denisov-find within orchestral resources the means for flying just as high. Denisov, the first composer from the recently surfaced Russian avant-garde to find his way to records, builds his six-minute Crescendo e Diminuendo by offering the conductor a series of short, disconnected blocks of string tones that he can put together in whatever order he wishes. In his ten-minute Phorion, Foss produces an authentic and horrifying piece of camp by turning a Bach prelude inside out and scattering its bones around the orchestra. Schuller...
Born in Whitman, Mass., where his father ran a grocery, Spellman gave no early hint of religious vocation. He attended public elementary and high schools, helped in his father's store, worked one summer as a conductor on the local trolley line. At New York's Jesuit-run Fordham University he was a conscientious but hardly brilliant student, a debater, and an earnest poet. Only on the eve of graduation did he decide to enter the priesthood. Ordained in 1916, he went to Rome as translator for a Boston bishop in 1925, so impressing Pope Pius XI that...
...handicaps are legion. Faced with playing the dual role of School and Concert band, the group suffers from problems of identity, as well as conflict of interest and rehearsal time. Then there is the added problem of the basically limited repertoire of works originally composed for band. Nevertheless, conductor James Walker always manages to put together an adventuresome program that depends remarkably little on John Philip Sousa...
...master. In the 1890-91 season, 39 of 70 Met performances were Wagner; in 1965-66, the last season at the old house, ten out of 212. Lacking the heroic singers to do justice to his demands, Wagner could return to new glory on the shoulders of a heroic conductor...