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...first season as impresario of off-Broadway's Public Theater, Producer Joseph Papp has rocked his subscribers with the original production of Hair (see above), shocked them with a freewheeling fantasia on the theme of Hamlet, and socked them with the allegorical, enigmatical Ergo (TIME, March 8). The theater's latest offering, spiky satire from Czechoslovakia called The Memorandum, winds up its season with a nervous laugh...
...week when most of the specials, for a change, deserved the title of special. CBS led the parade with S. Hurok Presents-Part II, and the indefatigable impresario produced a musical program of a quality that television has not achieved in years. Pianist Artur Rubinstein performed Beethoven's Concerto in G Major, Violinist David Oistrakh played Bach's Concerto in A Minor, and the Bolshoi Ballet danced a segment of Act II of Giselle. Throughout the 90-minute show, both music and ballet were presented on their own terms-without the usual TV camera tricks and, more important...
Some older observers are disquieted by such a torrent of activities. Impresario Sol Hurok, 79, shakes his head and says: "I think any artist should concentrate on one thing at a time. There is an old Russian saying: 'With one bottom, you can't be at two weddings.' " And Herbert von Karajan, 59, one of the last conductors bred in the old gradual apprenticeship, commented on the new conductors to a friend recently: "I'm afraid they jumped from elementary school to the university without going through the intervening stage of high school"-implying that...
...five quick years as discoverer-manager of the Beatles, fledgling Impresario Brian Epstein made $14 million, lived with a valet in a town house around the corner from Buckingham Palace, and adopted opulence as a way of life. He made so much money that not even high spending and Britain's high taxes could drain it all. When he died last summer at 32 of an overdose of barbiturates, Epstein left an estate of about $1,200,000, which after taxes and debts comes to $638,400. Epstein had no will, and the money will go to his mother...
...youngsters are currently studying music with an eye to sharing in the rewards, financial as well as artistic. There are, in fact, 7,500 professional musicians in Austria -about one-tenth of 1% of the 7,000,000 population (the same percentage as in the U.S.). Says Vienna impresario Peter Weiser: "At 20, a young musician can have the solvency and social position of an advertising vice president." Top Viennese instrumentalists make the equivalent of $14,000 a year, and members of the Vienna Philharmonic can get $20,000 worth of credit at a local bank just for the asking...