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Last week, in a stunning surprise, the Philharmonic's quest finally came to an end with the selection of a relative unknown: East German maestro Kurt Masur, currently the conductor of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Masur, 62, is a Kapellmeister in the best Central European tradition, and it was exactly this quality that appealed to the Philharmonic's search committee, which for the first time also included some of the orchestra's musicians. "He had an institutional commitment to the Gewandhaus that he was prepared to bring to New York," said orchestra chairman Stephen Stamas. Translation: Masur, whose five-year...
...this idea of a musical family that we have at the Gewandhaus I miss somehow. I want the musicians to have the feeling that they are at home, that they are playing together, that they are at the musical center of that big city." After seeing the Leipzig orchestra through its 250th birthday in 1993-94, Masur is expected to make New York his principal base...
Easier but wrong. Because, as strange as the notion may seem to those who view opera as Dr. Johnson's "exotic and irrational entertainment," art matters. It matters in Czechoslovakia, where a playwright has become President; in East Germany, where a Leipzig conductor, Kurt Masur, was a spiritual leader of the peaceful revolution; in Lithuania, where a musicologist is seeking to lead his land out of the Soviet Union. And it matters in Paris, where the Socialist Mitterrand has undertaken a series of cultural public-works projects that have enhanced the quality of life in the world's most beautiful...
Finally, 30 of us came together on Sept. 9 near Berlin. I knew only a third of them. We worked out our manifesto. Our meeting coincided with the exodus through Hungary and the mounting demonstrations in Leipzig. It became a grass- roots movement. People were copying the manifesto everywhere. The regime could not have been overthrown by a party, only by this kind of popular uprising...
...most other Germans, East and West. A poll taken by a Leipzig sociological institute last month indicated that Modrow's once omnipotent party was favored by only 12% of the electorate, in contrast to a commanding 53% for the SPD, which is closely allied with West Germany's opposition SPD. But in the same poll, 52% named Modrow as the country's most trusted political figure, a startling result in a country fed up with Communists. By contrast, Ibrahim Bohme, the SPD leader and Modrow's probable successor as Prime Minister, scored only 15%. In West Germany another popularity ranking...