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DIED. RAFAEL KUBELIK, 82, Bohemian-born maestro; in Lucerne, Switzerland. Son of renowned violinist Jan Kubelik, he became, at 27, chief conductor of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra in Prague. Seeking artistic freedom, he left Czechoslovakia when it went communist in 1948. Over the years he led the Chicago Symphony and Munich's Bavarian Radio Symphony...
Johnny Mathis, the make-out maestro of MTV? It looked as if it could happen when, almost 39 years after Wonderful! Wonderful! hit the charts, Mathis' new album debuted at 119 on the Billboard 200. Alas, it charted for only a week. Not that Mathis, 60, cares. "Music is like food or sex," he says. "You like...
...teetotaler...he gives 20% of his net earnings to the Baptist Church. During Evangelist Billy Graham's Manhattan crusade last year, Van sang in the Madison Square Garden choir...Buffalo Philharmonic Conductor Josef Krips recalls the time that Van came into his dressing room before a performance and said, 'Maestro, let us pray.' Krips, a Roman Catholic, dropped to his knees with the pianist. Said Van: 'God give us his grace and power to make good music together...
Tilson Thomas' wizardry is on display in the orchestra's recent U.S. tour, which ended last week, and in a smashing new recording of Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet recently released on the BMG label. Back at home in San Francisco, the maestro is regarded with the kind of fervor usually reserved for rock stars. The city is festooned with banners bearing his likeness, subscriptions are up 10%, and seats for Tilson Thomas' concerts are impossible to get. An openly gay man, he has also been hailed as an articulate and high-profile spokesman for San Francisco's large...
...preached against the evils of silver amalgam more successfully than a Colorado Springs dentist named Hal Huggins. A prolific writer of antiamalgam articles, pamphlets and books, Huggins, 58, is the maestro of mercury removal. About 2,000 Americans, many desperately ill, have visited the Huggins Diagnostic Center, where a team of five dentists pulled out fillings in two custom-made "bubble operatories" designed to minimize exposure to toxins. At its peak, in the early 1990s, the center treated 32 patients a month, subjecting them to intensive two-week therapies and charging as much as $8,500 a mouth...