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...orchestra formerly had a single assistant conductor, Bernstein decided a year ago to take on three promising younger men. His reason: young conductors have a hard time getting experience in the U.S. This fall, besides Millar, Bernstein chose Massachusetts-born Rus sell Stanger, 30, and Israeli-born Elyakum Shapira, 33. All three were in the hall at last week's concert when Bernstein walked offstage and announced that he was too ill to return to conduct the next scheduled work-Schumann's Symphony No. 4. (He was suffering the aftermath of a case of bronchitis contracted during...
Clubs & Violins. Next day, with Bernstein still sick, Millar conducted the Schumann again, while on the same program Shapira took over Beethoven's "Leonore" Overture and Stanger led Debussy's Afternoon of a Faun and Stravinsky's Firebird Suite. All of them, the audience agreed, sounded first-rate. Said one Bernstein...
...three Davids have had sound training (Millar at Berkeley, Stanger at the New England Conservatory, Shapira at Juilliard), and in 1951 Conductor Millar even founded his own orchestra, the San Francisco Little Symphony, while appearing in nightclubs on the side. He was first violin with the Vancouver Symphony in 1945 when Bernstein made a guest appearance with the orchestra, advised him to make conducting his career. How did Bernstein know he was any good? Said Lenny as he returned to his orchestra last week: "You can smell a conductor...
...Laboratory: several compounds built around S, 2-aminoethylisothiuronium (or AET) have been given to rats and mice, monkeys and dogs. Then the animals have been exposed to radiation. Figuring that 400 r. (see SCIENCE) will kill half the animals or human beings exposed to it, Researchers Doherty and Raymond Shapira doubled the dose. Whereas all untreated animals died, nearly all those given a suitable dose of AET survived...
JERUSALEM, Oct. 29--A bomb hurled from the public gallery injured Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion and four of his ministers in Parliament tonight. Social Welfare Minister Moshe Shapira was wounded seriously. The others escaped with lesser hurts...