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Isaac Stern, violinist, in praise of Livingston L. Biddle Jr., the new chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts: "My Russian friends tell me it's not the ministry of culture that you worry about. It's the culture of the minister...
...that friction may not be an unhealthy one. Cipolla--who recently dropped her long-time nickname, Fishweasel--has been getting more singing offers in the past few months; she opened a concert for Livingston Taylor last Sunday, and is currently negotiating with Asylum Records. Closer to home, she will be singing this weekend at the Nameless Coffeehouse in Cambridge. As she wrote in one of her more recent songs...
...were to set out to compose music today? If you haven't, you probably have wondered how Mozart would react to Leonard Bernstein, Pierre Boulez, or even Fleetwood Mac. Maybe they're both the same question. In any event, the first question is the one which Larry Livingston, music director of the New England Conservatory Symphony Orchestra, will address Tuesday night in the NEC's first "Music After Five" program of the season. Livingston's lecture and demonstration is one of half-a-dozen mostly free classical events this week at the Conservatory, 290 Huntington Ave., Boston, ranging from contemporary...
...Livingston, who comes to the NEC from the University of N. Illinois, will hold his talk in the NEC's Brown Hall at 6 p.m., and will attempt to discuss "how a young Mozart might approach music today and what he might write." The evening should be interesting and controversial, especially bearing in mind the composer to be discussed. It should also be expensive--$8 a person--but go anyway, particularly if you're intrigued by the new currents in musical composition...
...There was a Master come unto the earth, born in the holy land of Indiana, raised in the mystical hills east of Fort Wayne." So begins Illusions, the Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (Delacorte Press; $5.95), by the man who gave the world Jonathan Livingston Seagull. Richard Bach's latest whimsy is about an automobile mechanic named Donald Shimoda who barnstorms around the Midwest and preaches homilies. An old barnstormer himself, Bach used to dream of meeting just such a man to answer his questions like: "Why are we living?" Responding to his own questions, he has his character...