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Behind Slatkin is a group of younger conductors seeking their break into the big leagues. Among them: Finland's Esa-Pekka Salonen, 30, principal conductor of the Swedish Radio Symphony; England's Simon Rattle, 34, who leads the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in Britain; and Russian-born Semyon Bychkov, 36, who this month will jump from the Buffalo Philharmonic to the Orchestre de Paris. All must wait until a death or a retirement creates an opening in the front ranks...
...outstanding phenomenon," master of "sparkling language (and) unexpected metaphors," a real Russian "yearning for his homeland." Could this be the same Vladimir Nabokov, the great Russian-born novelist, whom Soviet authorities had long dismissed for "literary snobbism"? It could indeed, when a Soviet publication, 64 Chess Review, is prompted by today's new, more permissive cultural climate to print an excerpt from Nabokov's 1954 memoir Other Shores with a glowing introduction by Poet Fazil Iskander. So what if Nabokov is nine years dead, his greatest works, including the sensational Lolita, published decades ago? So what that...
...Russian-born sculptor Louise Nevelson is known both for her earlier interior sculptures in painted wood and for her more recent outdoor sculptures in metal, one of which was unveiled Tuesday at a ceremony at the Law School...
...Russian-born U.S. chess champion Lev Alburt yesterday told an audience of 40 players and scholars that politics dominates professional chess in the Soviet Union...
DIED. Efrem Zimbalist, 94, Russian-born violinist of high technical polish and emotional understatement, a considerable composer of songs and chamber music and a musical administrator and teacher who for 27 years, until 1968, headed Philadelphia's Curtis Institute; in Reno. He was the father and grandfather, respectively, of TV Actors Efrem Zimbalist Jr. and Stephanie Zimbalist...