Word: go
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Prince William Sound alone. To save the 6.5 million sandpipers and 10 million other shorebirds starting to migrate through the region, wildlife experts are trying to scare them away from their favorite stopping-off sites. The naturalists have set up big- barreled propane-powered cannons that are timed to go off noisily at regular intervals. They even erected 37 scarecrows dressed in Salvation Army clothing...
...expanded context of the Collected Poems, though, this stanza seems not only funny but also perfectly serious. Every generation imagines that the next one will have things easier. In "High Windows" Larkin wonders if his elders, thinking of him, expected that "He/ And his lot will all go down the long slide/ Like free bloody birds." It has not worked out that way, the poet suggests, even as he ironically envies the children of the swinging '60s their tantalizing, illusory liberties...
...Symphony; Lorin Maazel quit the Vienna State Opera and landed in Pittsburgh; Riccardo Muti, 47, conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, added the directorship of La Scala in Milan to his resume; La Scala's former leader, Claudio Abbado, 55, headed for Vienna. About the only one who did not go anywhere then was the New York Metropolitan Opera's James Levine...
...musical merry-go-round is spinning again. Today Levine is the favorite to step into Karajan's shoes, thanks to his good working relationship with the self-governing ensemble during his regular guest-conducting stints. Other possible contenders: Maazel, the Boston Symphony's Seiji Ozawa, Philadelphia's Muti and, farther afield, Leonard Bernstein, now a freelance guest conductor. What marks the new sweepstakes is the increasing desperation with which orchestras pursue the same handful of podium personalities. It is | not that there are too few good conductors, but that there are so few who meet the economic requirements: a hefty...
...afraid that the economics of the situation has much more to do with it than the music," says Gideon Toeplitz, vice president and managing director of the Pittsburgh Symphony. "The conductor needs sex appeal." Conductors themselves are well aware of the new realities. "Most orchestras today go for someone who is well before the public eye to assure ticket sales and recording contracts," says Leonard Slatkin, 44, who recently re-upped with the St. Louis Symphony but has not closed the door to a draft...