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...most successful U.S. architectural firms, Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo & Associates (Dinkeloo died last summer). Among the firm's acclaimed buildings are the Ford Foundation headquarters in New York City, the new buildings of Deere & Co. in Moline, 111., and the additions to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, including the Temple of Dendur Pavilion, the Michael C. Rockefeller Primitive Art Wing and the Robert Lehman Pavilion. New corporate headquarters for Union Carbide Corp., General Foods Corp. and Conoco Inc. are nearing completion. Early this month plans were announced for redesigning New York's Central Park...
During his Palm Sunday sermon in San Salvador's Metropolitan Cathedral, Monsignor Arturo Rivera y Damas spoke of "this resurrection that renews our hope that sooner or later our people too will be revived." At that very hour, a recently elected member of the new constituent assembly, David Joaquín Quinteros, 42, a father of five, died at the Policlinica Hospital a mile away. Quinteros, a member of the right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA), had been abducted the night before as he left a restaurant. Two hours later, he was found in a garbage dump with bullets...
...find the up-and-coming young American conductors today, one has to look beyond the ranks of the "Big Five" orchestras-New York, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland and Philadelphia-to the smaller but highly accomplished ensembles that have nourished around the country away from metropolitan spotlights. It is from their ranks that the next important American music director may emerge. Five top candidates...
...Tilson Thomas, 37, after an eight-year stint as the Buffalo Philharmonic's music director, now spends his time guest conducting both here and abroad. Perhaps the most successful of all the young Americans is James Levine, 38, who holds the powerful job of music director at the Metropolitan Opera. In demand throughout the classical spectrum, Levine has emphasized his career in opera. He makes his Bayreuth debut this summer in Wagner's Parsifal and will conduct operas in Salzburg and Vienna as well...
...industrial, southern enough to have a gently rural aspect, western enough to have once been on the frontier, eastern enough to have a past." He came-up with Hamilton, "a city, a self-contained town, a suburb, a satellite in the orbits of both Cincinnati and Dayton, a minor metropolitan cluster, a country seat, a bump on the plain, a galactic microdot where 63.189 people want to see what will happen next. "Davis probably could not have done better in his search for an American stew, but his selection begs the question of the value of conveniently designating one city...