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...largest bank, Swedish-born, California-raised Rudy Peterson hopes to hasten that day by moving the Bank of America further toward an automated time when it will handle everything from company payrolls to customers' milk bills. A credit expert and onetime prodigy of Founder A. P. Giannini, he feels that this trend makes it all the more important to keep up human contacts with his customers. "We cannot," he says, "become a factory." In his cherry-walled and beige-carpeted office in San Francisco, he receives a steady stream of visitors, also seeks to keep abreast of changing banking...
...inertia is dangerous because so much depends on one's own center of gravity in musical history. If, for examble, one feels most at home anywhere between Palestrina and Mahler, then the programs of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra this season were daring--chronologically, at least. They included works of Giannini, Kodaly, Hindemith, Bartok, Martin, and, on Friday's program, Charles Griffes and Alfredo Ginastera. But if one's scope extends to twentieth century musical ideas and materials, beyond mere rehashings of established techniques, then the HRO has been disturbingly conservative. On examination, most of the contemporary works...
...come to the concert expecting to hear an anemic student orchestra, the first five minutes of the performance were petrifying. The sound of Giannini's Frescobaldiana, which received its New England premiere Friday, rolled out bigger, smoother, and more controlled than anything we could remember the HRO emitting before. Difficult transitions--full orchestra dropping away to unveil a quartet of woodwinds--passed in untroubled succession. Massive string sections--nine violas and eleven cellos--luxuriated in lush tone. A fine solo on the English horn by Barbara Cohen introduced the second movement. And Swoboda provided the histrionics on the podium that...
Swoboda made up for the rather overwhelming Giannini with a clear, clean interpretation of Schubert's "Unfinished" Symphony. Swoboda took the opening Allegro moderato at a leisurely, though defensible, tempo, modifying it as the music demanded. Michael Brenner, clarinet, and Barbara Cohen, oboe, reflected musical thoughtfulness and care in their solos opening and ending the second movement...
...radio stations and two foreign-language newspapers-New York's Spanish La Prensa and Il Progresso Italo-Americano, the nation's oldest and most influential Italian-language newspaper. (Another brother, Generoso Jr., publishes the weekly sex-and-scandal tabloid, National Enquirer.) Since the death of A. P. Giannini, founder and chairman of the Bank of America, Fortune Pope, 43, has been sometimes spoken of as the outstanding figure in the huge (more than 4,000,000) U.S. Italian-American community. Yet last week, standing before a New York federal judge, Fortune and Anthony Pope were branded "incredibly stupid...