Word: st
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Leonard Slatkin, 35, grew up professionally with St. Louis. Before his stint as music director of the New Orleans Philharmonic, he had moved upward, through the conducting ranks of the orchestra he will now head. He is an inventive programmer who likes little-known American works and singles out the less popular symphonies of the major composers. Slatkin's weakness, musicians feel, is his tendency to skim the surface of music and his awkwardness on the podium. Still, he and St. Louis know each other intimately and should grow together...
...Neville Marriner, 54, and Klaus Tennstedt, 52. Minnesota is lucky. It has landed two men who have gained formidable international reputations in a relatively brief time. Marriner, conductor of London's Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields chamber orchestra, has "charm and wit and intellect," says one London observer. His 200 recordings, many of Baroque music, have pleasingly brisk tempi and a gay, intimate sound. As music director, Marriner will bring his favorite Haydn and Mozart to Minnesota; his weakness may well be that specialized repertoire. But, says he, "if you want to have any impact as musical...
...noon the two sets of ballots, skewered on a long needle and string like a kind of combined ecclesiastical shishkebab and necklace, were thrust into the chapel stove along with black chemical lares to send up a dark "no Pope" signal to the waiting crowds in St. Peter's Square. But the flue above the stove was broken, and black smoke seeped through the chapel, partially obscuring Michelangelo's famous frescoes. For a quarter of an hour, the assembled Cardinals coughed, covered their mouths and rubbed their eyes until two windows were opened to clear...
...they rushed up to the stove themselves and stuffed in their personal notes and tally sheets, igniting the paper with black flares. A white signal had already gone up, but now the Cardinalitial enthusiasm caused the chimney to belch bursts of black and gray smoke, keeping the crowd in St. Peter's Square guessing for the hour it took for John Paul to make his first appearance...
Rome did not get its first real look at this engagingly humble man until the next day, when 200,000 people filled St. Peter's Square for the weekly Sunday noon blessing. John Paul spoke for seven minutes, dispensing with the Papal "we," brimming with good nature, bringing forth an adoring roar. "Let us understand each other," he told the crowd. "I do not have the wisdom of heart of Pope John, nor the preparation and culture of Pope Paul. However, now I am in their place and must try to help the church. I hope you will help...