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Some conductors prefer Beethoven, others Wagner. Some like sopranos, others tenors. Conductor Peter Maag's rather specialized preference is for the key of E-flat major. "Tonalities are like colors," he explains. "Have you noticed that when Mozart attacks E-flat he al ways uses clarinets, and when he attacks D-major he always uses oboes? E-flat suggests something very mature and saturated. D-major music is whiter and sharper. E-flat suggests a dark tone, a dark color like dark blue or green...
...ruddy-faced, humorous ex-divinity student (Lutheran) who likes to dwell on food when he is not thinking about key signatures. While rehearsing a Haydn Notturno for his second concert, he says, "I told the orchestra, 'This music was intended to be played after a heavy dinner of turtle soup, a souffle, duckling, venison, ice, and crepe suzette! And now play with all that in your stomach.' They understood...
...next night, Maag was back again in Philharmonic Hall repeating his triumph with a program that included Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 26, but was climaxed by Haydn's "Drumroll" Symphony. Key of E-flat...
...Key Location. With a little private banking business thrown in, the family more than meets its goal of being, as Jack Pritzker puts it, "busy and successful." Busiest of all the Pritzker holdings nowadays is its 57%-owned Hyatt Corp., which in twelve years has grown from a single unit to a chain of 14 hotels and 40 motels. Run from headquarters in Burlingame, Calif., by Donald Pritzker, 35, Hyatt increased its earnings last year by 78% over the year before, to $1.5 million...
Though far smaller than such chains as Sheraton (1967 revenues: $286.6 million), Hyatt has achieved a growth rate that Don Pritzker claims is "tops in the industry." By keeping to key locations near airports and in downtown areas where hotel business is already booming, the chain hopes to keep that growth continuing. This year alone Hyatt is building ten more motels and expanding its standout success, Atlanta's handsome and unusual Regency Hyatt House. Little more than a year old, Regency House has already become a major Atlanta attraction. Its interior balconies rise 22 stories around a glass-roofed...