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...There's great experimental value in terms of the composition of cable companies in the country," says Susan Fleischmann, adding that only Davis, Calif. and Oberlin, Ohio, currently have cable franchises that are cooperatives. "It's a real risk, but one that Cambridge should take...
...rupture that Previn declines to confirm. "To lose a job is one thing, but to keep your manners has to be done at the same time," says the Berlin-born, California-bred Previn, who previously led the London Symphony for eleven years. He was promptly snapped up by Ernest Fleischmann, the executive director in Los Angeles, who when manager of the London Symphony first brought Previn there as a guest conductor. Deadpans Fleischmann of his happy timing: "It was great luck...
...stay 40 years with his orchestra." The globetrotting, if-this-is-Tuesday types are not about to be tied down. "It's easy to stand up and beat time and have fancy choreography and a good tailor, but that does not make a good conductor," observes Fleischmann. "What we need is magicians capable of performing mysterious acts with an orchestra." Alas, the favored trick today seems to be the vanishing...
...idea of producing Falstaff originated four years ago, when Giulini became music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, succeeding Zubin Mehta. He and Ernest Fleischmann, the orchestra's shrewd executive director, agreed that Giulini would lead at least one fully staged opera under ideal working conditions during his tenure. Since 1968, when he performed Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro at the Met, Giulini has turned down all offers to conduct opera in the theater. Accustomed to only new productions at such major opera houses as Milan's La Scala and London's Covent Garden, Giulini...
...choice of successor will be entirely up to Peter Fleischmann, 58, board chairman and son of the founding owner, Raoul Fleischmann. Nobody is trying to drive Shawn away, yet there is uneasy anticipation among the staff of a transition that will have to come. After 28 years of Shawn's dominance, a new editor will undoubtedly favor different writers, show less interest in some of Shawn's pet subjects, introduce other tastes. Might he even decide that the general reader can be taken into account, just a teeny bit, without jeopardizing the integrity of the writer? Might...