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DIED. Richard Franko Goldman, 69, music scholar, composer and conductor who was president of Baltimore's Peabody Institute from 1969 to 1977 and leader of New York City's nationally known Goldman Band for the past 24 seasons; after a long illness; in Baltimore. Though the dapper musician was 19 when he first led the march-and-swing ensemble that his father Edwin had founded in 1911, he started out pursuing loftier strains by studying composition and teaching at Manhattan's Juilliard School. When he took over the 56-member band in 1956, he had it play...
...enchanted by his playing that she offers herself to him for the night as a tribute; and many a French bourgeoise "who apparently needed a diversion from the routine of marital life." But at 45 Rubinstein marries Aniela Mlynarski, 23, the attractive daughter of a Polish conductor, and they set about having their four children. The playboy is transformed into the proud papa. Proud but sometimes perplexed: the first time Rubinstein's daughter Eva asks him to play something, he goes to the keyboard, deeply touched, only to find that she meant on the phonograph...
...Composer Igor Stravinsky, Rubinstein shows him how to make more money (go on tour as a pianist and conductor of his own works) and how to cure his impotence (have a good dinner and visit a brothel). What he cannot do is persuade Stravinsky to write lyrically for the piano instead of percussively. The Russian was a master of his métier, Rubinstein concludes, but he lacked "an original melodic invention...
Following a legend, conceded Composer John T. Williams last week, "will be very difficult." Still he seems a logical choice to take the baton of the late Arthur Fiedler as conductor of the Boston Pops. A month short of his 48th birthday, Williams has written more than 50 film scores, and won Oscars for three (Fiddler on the Roof, Jaws and Star Wars). The new leader will meet his musicians at a Boston rehearsal next week, then conduct his first concert at Carnegie Hall. The parent Boston Symphony Orchestra, which depended on Fiedler's prodigious performances to keep...
Busoni: The Six Sonatinas for Piano (Paul Jacobs, Nonesuch). Frederick Rzewski: Song and Dance. John Harbison: The Flower-Fed Buffaloes (Speculum Musicae, John Harbison conductor, Nonesuch). These two discs exemplify the fare that tiny, enterprising Nonesuch has been putting out for 15 years, a mixture of the unhackneyed traditional and the contemporary. The Rzewski-Harbison set - fresh, interesting chamber works by two Americans in their 40s - is the latest in a long line of contemporary composers on the label, including Elliott Carter, Morton Subotnik and George Crumb. Last month None such's guiding spirit, Teresa Sterne, was dismissed...