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Last year Lichtenstein hired Composer-Conductor Lukas Foss as director of the Academy's orchestra, the Brooklyn Philharmonia. Jazz, blues and gospel are heard throughout the year in the Black People's Music program, highlighted each fall by a festival of performing groups from Africa and Asia...
...Lukas Foss, 51, composer-conductor...
...Count Rene Paul Boel, Solvay et Cie.; Willard C. Butcher, Chase Manhattan Corp.; Louis Camu, Banque de Bruxelles; Alain Chevalier, Moet-Hennessy; Dr. F. Wilhelm Christians, Deutsche Bank; Fernand Josef Collin, Kredietbank, N.V.; Dr. Paul Dax, Siemens; Sir Eric Drake, British Petroleum; Baron Edouard-Jean Empain, Electrorail; Nils Foss, F.L. Smidth & Co.; Pehr G. Gyllenhammar, Volvo; Alfred H. Heineken, Heineken, N.V.; Belton K. Johnson, King Ranch; Dr. Konrad...
...this respect among young conductors is Michael Tilson Thomas, who is clearly using his remarkable prominence beneficially. Even in his pre-Boston Symphony days. Thomas performed a remarkable amount of unusual music-his four years in Los Angeles, for example, included premieres of Stravinsky, Boulez, Stockhausen, Dahl, and Foss...
...they performed beautifully. The Concerto deliberately parallels the third Brandenburg in many ways, especially in the opening theme and the three part violin and viola sections. But, although it parallels the Bach piece, it does not resemble it, nor is it based on Bach in the way that Lukas Foss's Baroque Variations...