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Wrapped in Conceit. The competition was the inspiration of Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Conductor John Pritchard, who feels that there are plenty of young conductors around with more talent than they can shake a stick at. Why not test them with a first-rate orchestra? He invited Cologne-born William Steinberg, conductor of both the Pittsburgh Symphony and the London Philharmonic, to help him judge a contest for musicians under 40. The pair screened 90 applicants, "weeded out all the dilettantes,'' ended with a list of 19 competitors from nine countries. Each had to prepare a repertory of twelve...
After two weeks and fifty hours of music, Conductors Steinberg and Pritchard agreed on three "equal merit" awards, signifying that no single winner stood out sharply above the others. The winners: India's Zubin Mehta, 22; Detroit-born Haig Yaghjian (pronounced Yog-jun), 33, founder of the semiprofessional Fresno (Calif.) orchestra; Norway's Sverre Bruland, 35. Conductor Steinberg, 58, was disappointed, but not particularly surprised that the contest did not turn up the "fair-haired wonder boy we were looking for." Said he: "Conducting is, in its best sense, conveying experience. How can young men convey experience...
...city and the well were lost to history until this summer, when-after two seasons of excavation at a site called El-Jib a few miles north of Jerusalem-the pool of Gibeon began to flow again. Its discoverer: Archaeologist James B. Pritchard, who in 1951 found the palace of Herod at Jericho...
Pottery at a Premium. Searching three years ago for Gibeon, Dr. Pritchard surveyed 39 sites, picked El-Jib partly because its name, transliterated from Hebrew to Arabic, might well be a blurred rendering of Gibeon. Last year Pritchard began to dig (his expedition was financed by the University of Pennsylvania Museum and the Church Divinity School of the Pacific, where he teaches Biblical Hebrew). Four feet below the surface at El-Jib Pritchard found the walls of houses, then evidence of a 26-ft.-thick wall surrounding the town, and finally the rim of a pool 37 ft. across...
Concentrating on the pool, Pritchard made such exciting finds of pottery that this year he began to pay premium rates to 100 native diggers, set them to work two shifts a day hauling out debris in baskets made of old auto tires. In short order they had dug past the well's first stage-a broad shaft cut out of limestone 33 ft. deep, faced with a spiral staircase. Then the diggers excavated a narrower tunnel with steps cut in its side to reach a broad water-drawing room 82 ft. below the surface...