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...16th century Mantua (his ultimate choice) or even 20th century Manhattan as long as the relationships among the characters are preserved? Adventurous stage directors, for whom tradition is the memory of the last bad performance, are answering that in many cases, it does not. "Tradition is slovenliness," exclaimed Gustav Mahler. His cry has never seemed more apt, and it is being taken up with brio in the opera world...
...sampling of recent events largely bears out that judgment, even if it is still too early to tell how the hall ultimately will turn out. The Boston Symphony under Seiji Ozawa, which performed Mahler's "Resurrection" Symphony * during opening week, bloomed in the new environment, but the Philadelphia Orchestra under Riccardo Muti sounded harsh and edgy in Beethoven's "Eroica" Symphony. Bass Samuel Ramey effortlessly reached the far edges of the balcony in his triumphant January recital, but it took several minutes before Warren Jones, his accompanist, adjusted his touch in order to project each melodic strand cleanly...
...Mahler admitted last week that he, like almost everyone else, had been slow to grasp the seriousness of the crisis. "Everything is getting worse and worse in AIDS, and all of us have been underestimating it, and I in particular," he told the New York Times. "I don't know of any greater killer than AIDS...
What faces the world's population, said Dr. Halfdan Mahler, the Danish director of WHO, is a "health crisis of pandemic proportions." Meeting it, he said, will require expenditures of $1.5 billion a year by the start of the 1990s for a massive global public-health program. In the past five years, there have been an estimated 100,000 AIDS cases throughout the world, most of them in North America, Africa and Western Europe. One million people are currently suffering from AIDS-related disorders. Moreover, as many as 10 million have been infected with the AIDS virus and are capable...
...plans an elaborate campaign of education for interested government agencies, health workers and social scientists, Mahler said. The effort will include a global system for sharing information among scientists and a research program to study drugs, vaccines and other preventive measures...