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During one five-week period last winter, the Philadelphia Orchestra offered the world premieres of challenging concertos by Stanislaw Skrowaczewski and Richard Wernick. In New York City in February, Elmar Oliveira gave the first performance of a lyrical new work by Hugh Aitken, while in Montreal, Stern contributed the North American premiere of French Composer Henri Dutilleux's impressionistic concerto. The same month Virtuoso Shlomo Mintz played Marc Neikrug's neoromantic concerto for the second time, having presented its world premiere in 1984. And this week Sergiu Luca will give the American premiere of William Bolcom's frisky new concerto...
...resolution for her anguish. Charging violation of her right of free speech, she sued the university, in the persons of Leroy Ervin Jr., her remedial-program supervisor, and Virginia Trotter, vice president for academic affairs, who had dismissed Kemp on grounds of insubordination and insufficient scholarly research. Ending a five-week trial, the six-member jury decided on a stunning judgment of $2.5 million to Kemp. Said Trotter, in the understatement of the season: "I was certainly surprised...
Pension plans and a mandatory, unpaid five-week layoff between academic terms are also at issue for the union, whose members earn between $6.72 and $11.58 an hour, Russell said...
Then, in midsummer, Janeway was confronted with a well-publicized libel trial initiated by former Massachusetts Republican Gubernatorial Candidate John Lakian. Though he had nothing to do with the 1982 story that sparked Lakian's suit, Janeway attended the five-week trial every day, sitting next to the accused reporter to show his support. When the jury delivered a confusing verdict that seemed to go against the Globe, Janeway made a rare appearance in the newsroom to explain why the paper's lawyers thought that Judge George Jacobs would rule in the Globe's favor. The following week, Jacobs indeed...
Dershowitz was not involved in the much-bally hooed, five-week 1982 trial, when Von Bulow was convicted of attempting to kill his wife, Pittsburgh utilities heiress and New port socialite Martha "Sunny" von Bulow, by injecting her with insulin injections...