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...spirited mistress and later the wife of Publisher and Oilman Charles Marsh. Their affair began in 1938, after Alice, then 26, met the tall, jug-eared Congressman, then 29, during a party at Longlea, her regal Virginia estate. He arranged a visa extension at her request for Conductor Erich Leinsdorf, an Austrian Jew fleeing the Nazis. The relationship continued until the 1960s, when Alice grew angry at L.B.J.'s conduct of the Viet...
David Zinman, 45, of the Rochester Philharmonic. In eight years, Zinman has taken a demoralized, undermanned ensemble and turned it into an orchestra that plays better today than it did in its glory days under Erich Leinsdorf in the '50s. Zinman's strengths are a buoyant sense of rhythm and a flair for orchestral color, which make his Mahler performances hard-driving and vivid. Zinman is the oldest of the group, and his increasing musical maturity makes him a front runner for a top post. But, in the recesses of upstate New York, he may be marooned...
...from the catalogue available by calling 262-8700 (after determining how much you wish to pledge). If you pledge $20 or more, you may choose a musical request from over 1000 exclusive performances taped by the BSO at Tanglewood, Symphony Hall, and in Europe, under the batons of Koussevitsky, Leinsdorf, Much, Ozawa. Your choice selection will be broadcast over WCRB in the 4-day period. These recording are not available at the Coop, Strawberries, or any other record dealer in or outside of Cambridge. They are the exclusive property of the orchestra (non-commercially released) and range from works...
...Hurok's president, Gold announced the formation of his own firm, ICM Artists Ltd. Since then, the agency has signed up such onetime Hurok clients as Violinists Isaac Stern and Pinchas Zukerman; Pianists Claudio Arrau, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Gina Bachauer and Daniel Barenboim; Cellist Leonard Rose; Conductors Erich Leinsdorf and Julius Rudel; and Dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov. Zukerman switched, he explained, because "Shelly Gold is more than a manager to me. He's a close friend. I get a lot from Shelly, a lot more than the 20%." Added Stern: "I don't want to say anything bad about...
...Choice. Careering about Vienna, Holmes and his cadre become involved with that cornerstone of Victoriana, the Amnesiac Lady in Distress, played by the breathtaking Norma Osborne Slater. When she is kidnaped by Warmonger Baron Von Leinsdorf-who plans to blow up Europe-Holmes has no choice. With his faithful M.D.s, Watson and Freud, the sleuth engages in a transcontinental chase scene, holding the fate of Western civilization in the calm of his hand...