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...class, whose students come mostly from the K-School's mid-career program, is to "increase one's awareness of what it means to be a leader and to develop one's capacity to manage the roles of leadership and authority," according to Lecturer in Public Policy Ronald Heifetz. The central question, he says, is how leadership is created. Heifetz believes that leadership--like athletics and music--demands an innate talent, which must in turn be developed through instruction. Heifetz maintains that his method and material are both innovative and important for civic health...
...music what is proper training has evolved, but basically the pedagogy of training musicians is somewhat understood,...whereas the whole subject matter of leadership is experimental," he says. Heifetz does not think that the essence of leadership necessarily means commanding followers, or even having power, but simply knowing "how to analyze problems, how to get the work done...
While the class is, on the face of it, studying leadership, it is also observing leadership in action. Heifetz terms his use of classroom dynamics "an extension of the case method...
...Jascha Heifetz's Mozart. [It] tries . . . to make out of the greatest musician the world has ever known something between a sentimental Pierrot and a Dresden china clock...
...extraordinary performances and recordings; he has little to add here. He is better on his fellow musicians, particularly those whom he does not wholly admire. He proudly plays his new recording of the Grieg concerto for the sardonic Rachma ninoff, whose sole comment is "Piano out of tune." Jascha Heifetz patronizes him musically but seeks his advice on buying gentlemanly accouterments. His great rival, Vladimir Horowitz, hangs about Rubinstein's Paris home, accepting free meals and fussing over his encores. After they fall out, ostensibly because of a broken lunch date, Rubinstein delivers a left-handed salute: "The greatest...