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...Washington is trying a new approach: star power. This season, two of the classical world's most renowned musicians have been recruited to revive the city's symphony and opera. Leonard Slatkin, the internationally acclaimed conductor of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, has been named to lead the 66-year-old National Symphony, while Placido Domingo, one-third of the international franchise known as the Three Tenors, has become the new artistic director of the 41-year-old Washington Opera. "To have two such major names take up residence raises the level substantially," says Richard Hancock, executive director...
...decades since, however, no director has had the inclination or clout to rein in these agencies. Deutch is doing just that. Instead of becoming bogged down in CIA business, as past chiefs have, Deutch has left the day-to-day operation of the agency to his executive director, Nora Slatkin, so he can spend most of his time overseeing the rest of the community...
...last month, is eager to put the sex-discrimination issue behind him. Improving the lot of women at the agency "is a big deal for me," Deutch told reporters after he took his post. "I will be pushing that very hard." Deutch has appointed former Navy Assistant Secretary Nora Slatkin to the No. 3 position in the agency; she vows to make "the glass ceiling a glass floor." Deutch's arrival is being greeted with cautious optimism by the women DO officers suing the agency. Deutch is saying all the right things, Diane explains, but "we've heard it from...
...buffed by Pierre Boulez, who became musical adviser after Szell's death in 1970; by Lorin Maazel, music director from 1972 to 1982; and now by Dohnanyi, it has added a voluptuousness that sets it above its stiffest American competition -- principally, Daniel Barenboim's Chicago Symphony, Leonard Slatkin's St. Louis Symphony and Kurt Masur's New York Philharmonic...
...serious fun was so contagious that he still elicits that reaction even in his absence," she says. "He just seems to generate a celebratory impulse from everybody." But some people find the spectacle suspiciously premature. "Unfortunately, he is being commercially exploited right now," notes another Lenny, conductor Leonard Slatkin. "There is a lot of effort and time and money being put into keeping the legend alive. I find it all a little bit sad." Says Ernest Fleischmann, executive director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic: "Bernstein's memory is best served by his music and his recordings and by the people...