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...number of directors who are involved with big corporations in town felt queasy," says board chairman Paul Rogers. Ultimately the board decided that dropping the show would contravene the troupe's commitment to new plays (its season has also included a world premiere of Fragments -- A Concerto Grosso by Edward Albee, now running in New York City, and The Rights by Lee Blessing, now in Marietta, Georgia). Artistic director White offered one concession: no one under 18 would be admitted. White's position was bolstered by a donation of more than $6,000 from local gay businessmen, who lauded...
...course, popular in the Michael Jackson sense; you won't see the Concerto Grosso No. 4 turning up on MTV. But no living composer of so-called serious music exerts so much hold on the imagination and loyalty of his interpreters as does the reclusive Schnittke, 59. Performers from the old East bloc such as violinist Gidon Kremer, a fellow Soviet emigre, cellist-conductor Mstislav Rostropovich and conductor Kurt Masur have been championing his works for years. Now, it seems, the rest of the world is catching...
...Grosso used his speech to announce plans for a new exchange program between the Graduate School of Design and the School of Architecture of Buenos Aires...
...Grosso also called for increased social and economic cooperation in the Western hemisphere along the lines of the European Community...
...nations of the Americas] will have to walk hand-in-hand, and I hope that we will be successful," Grosso said...