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...Reader's Digest, about a visiting group of Chinese (nationalist, to be sure) invited to hear the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Like all visitors to America, they were asked by their hosts which part they liked best. "Oh," they replied, "we liked the part in the beginning without the conductor." Last night the situation was reversed, as Shanta Rao won over her audience by the swagger and delight with which she boldly took her bows, first swinging her arms high to either side of her body, then bowing low in that most graceful of Eastern gestures, touching her folded hands...
...opening night last week, some 300 people packed the West Auditorium in the Department of State building. First came a brief speech by Secretary of Labor Willard Wirtz and an introduc tion by Ambassador Gutierrez. Then Conductor Leonard Bernstein of the New York Philharmonic introduced his pert blonde wife, Felicia Montealegre, a onetime Chilean actress. In English and Spanish, she recited from Chilean Bards Gabriela Mistral and Pablo Neruda, which left several of the ladies-and Bernstein-misty-eyed...
...caught an early bird. While doing some crack-of-dawn reading in his St. Tropez villa, he heard a noise in his sleeping wife's adjacent bedroom, opened the door and bumped smack into a young burglar. "What are you doing here?" roared the conductor, appassionato. For answer, he got a fortissimo downbeat right in the kisser...
...blow broke Von Karajan's reading glasses, drove the broken bits into his left eyelid and brow. But after a hurried flight to Paris, where specialists took 20 stitches to close the wounds, the conductor was assured of no permanent eye damage. And back on the Riviera, the flics, using his description, picked up a suspect who, it seemed, had visited the Von Karajans after unsuccessfully trying to break into Brigitte Bardot's home earlier...
...Dadaism. He swooped around Paris in the belle époque of the 1900s with a lighted pipe in his pocket and could be seen most afternoons in the cafés with his pocket gently smoldering. He pronounced himself Pope of the "Metropolitan Church of Art of Jesus the Conductor," issued blizzards of encyclicals and excommunicated unfriendly music critics. He cheerfully orchestrated his music for airplane propellers, lottery wheels and typewriters-and occasion ally delivered it to his friends in the form of paper gliders. He also wrote a little work for piano called Vexations-an 80-second chordal theme...