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...Celebrity Series season runs from October through April, and concerts are either at Symphony Hall or Jordan Hall. This year will feature such orchestras as the Cleveland Symphony and the London Philharmonic, pianists Claudio Arrau, Rudolf Serkin, and Lazar Berman, vocalists Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Janet Baker, and violinists Henryk Szeryng and Itzhak Perlman. Tickets are about what you'd expect to pay for performers of this magnitude, falling in the $5-$9 range. But if you're going to hear a concert, you might as well hear some of the best...
...Lazar Berman's American debut was eagerly awaited, since the fory-five year old Russian pianist had already acquired a prodigious reputation in the east, and it was received, just last month, with universal raves. The five recordings which have just been released to coincide with his ongoing tour reveal him as a pianist who has absolutely everything...
...Readers were launched, and where Red Blaik and Ara Parseghian got their starts in football. After last week it may also be remembered as the site of the U.S. debut of the latest in a long line of Russian pianists that includes Emil Gilels and Sviatoslav Richter. Lazar Berman, 45, is unknown in the U.S. and Western Europe. But collectors of Soviet recordings, as well as many pianists throughout the world, have for years praised his talent...
...bought the right to video-tape a series of exclusive television interviews with Richard Nixon, who has granted no audiences to the press since he left Washington a year ago. The price: reportedly somewhere between $650,000 and $750,000. Though Nixon's literary agent, Irving ("Swifty") Lazar, announced that "Mr. Nixon chose David Frost because of Mr. Frost's unique and wide-ranging experience," it was obvious that the interview rights had simply gone to the highest bidder...
Frost offered $500,000 several months ago, approaching Nixon through his former communications chief Herb Klein, now an executive at Metromedia in Los Angeles. When Lazar insisted on more, Frost raised his offer. The deal was assured when NBC, the one network in the running, failed to match Frost's bid. Then Frost, Nixon and their lawyers huddled at San Clemente for 51/2 hours and emerged with a signed, 13-page contract stipulating that Nixon be available for 20 hour-long taping sessions that will be edited into four TV shows, each probably 90 minutes long, with a fifth...