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...Teamster bosses. He wore a black suit, black shoes, a freshly ironed white shirt, and a silver striped tie. He sat impassively, his short, grayish hair combed straight back, while a Harvard Law School student gave him a lavish introduction. The New Crusader then walked quickly to the podium, cleared his throat, and launched into a compelling attack on the American prison system...
WHEN MR. MEHTA returned to the podium for the Ravel, he seemed to be in better spirits than during the opening work. Smiling, and with more confidence, he conducted an exquisite performance of Daphnis et Chloe, Suite No. 2, the second of the two orchestral suites that were drawn from Ravel's complete ballet. While conducting, Mehta became the personification of the music--his arms were fluid and graceful during the light, airy passages in the opening of the Ravel, and then became tense and stiff when the music demanded rhythmically exact cues to the orchestral players. And Mr. Mehta...
...President Nixon arrives on the podium, and the band strikes up The Stars and Stripes Forever...
...executives acted like high priests struck at the altar. William Sheehan, Leonard's opposite number at ABC, found the Shannon piece "terribly wrongheaded." Richard Wald, executive vice president of NBC News, said, "I'd like to see the New York Times cover the podium and nothing else." Douglas Kiker, an NBC floor man, generously included William Shannon as "one of my respected friends. And the piece is fulla crap. Absolutely fulla crap...
...Previn can no longer be dismissed as a Hollywood upstart from the wrong side of the sound tracks. At the piano, in jazz or in Brahms, his playing is fluid and sparkling with character, although he often seems restrained, as if afraid of damaging the keys. His podium manner is similarly unshowman-like-self-effacing, in fact-but his sure beat, his quest for clarity of sound and shape, have reaffirmed the L.S.O. as one of the world's best orchestras...