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...flourished in Europe when her restrictions were eventually lifted, but she has only slowly made her way back across the Atlantic to America. In the 1990s, she performed as a soloist with the Houston Symphony and The Philadelphia Orchestra, in 2004 with the New York Philharmonic conducted by Kurt Masur, and, in 2005, she gave recitals and concerts in Baltimore, Boston and California, including with the San Francisco Symphony under Kurt Masur.Gutman says she enjoys performing before a young audience, making university appearances like the one at Harvard particularly important to her. “In Europe I [am] used...
...When the German conductor Kurt Masur toured Asia with the London Philharmonic in 2002, he proclaimed: "The future of classical music is more in Asia than anywhere else." The new generation of artists, led by the likes of Yundi Li and Sumi Jo, may well prove him right. But as they know better than most, the way to Carnegie Hall?or the Esplanade?is the same as it ever was: practice, practice, practice. At a recent rehearsal of Brahms in Hong Kong, De Waart scolded the orchestra's violinists for not moving their bows in perfect unison...
Walt Disney Co. chairman Michael Eisner, left, has commissioned millennial choral symphonies from two up-and-coming American composers, Michael Torke and Aaron Jay Kernis, center. Kurt Masur, right, and the New York Philharmonic will premiere them...
...interest simply hasn't been there" for a Latino program since. Even the networks' critics largely blame not blind Klansmanship but the belief that white viewers are key to the ratings and ad bucks that big broadcasters seek. "They think about the market," says Screen Actors Guild president Richard Masur, "and you have to address them in those terms." But a scarcity of minority executives and the pigeonholing of minority writers don't help. "Programmers and executives know Latinos only as people they see in their kitchens and gardens," remarks Latina TV writer Julie Friedgen...
...might appear that the great symphonic works would lift the spirit profoundly as well, but symphonic organizations have not been as successful in refreshing their audiences. Deborah Borda, executive director of the New York Philharmonic, is lucky to have as maestro Kurt Masur, who works tirelessly to pull in kids and young people. He is backed up by flexible formats, moderate prices and gimmicks like rush-hour concerts. But, Borda says, sighing: "we don't have wigs and makeup onstage, nor the emergence of such megastars as Pavarotti. People of that nature really broke down barriers and created accessibility...