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...Harvard graduate students also scored in the AAU-sponsored event, open to any amateur wrestler. Al Steinberg of the Medical School took second place in the 165-pound class, and Rick Sullivan was third at 174 pounds...
Ominous Cloud. In addition to Lucia, the Met is mounting new productions of Samson et Delila and Salome. In January, Leontyne Price will sing Cosí fan Tutte for the first time, followed by the conducting debut of William Steinberg (TIME, Sept. 11) two months later. In March, after an absence of seven years, Maria Callas will make her long-awaited return to the Met to sing Tosca...
...Steinberg likes to describe his role as a primus inter pares-a leader of equals -and he takes great pains to let his musicians share in the sense of accomplishment that most conductors reserve to themselves. And he is known as a conductor who religiously does his homework. Steinberg often rehearses without a score, and continually amazes the players by humming his own interpretation of each instrument's part...
Bright Future. Steinberg is also a vigorous fund raiser and public relations man, once promoted a concert by donning a fireman's helmet and red suspenders to tear around town on a fire engine, gaily clanging the fire bell. As a result, the Pittsburgh Symphony today enjoys a 30-week season, a budget of nearly $1,000,000, and a base of community support so broad that there has been some talk of rechristening it the Tri-State Symphony. Prospects for the future are exceptionally bright, thanks to a grant of $5,000,000 from Heinz and Mellon funds...
This coming season Steinberg will take a year's sabbatical from his Pittsburgh post to conduct 48 concerts with the New York Philharmonic while Leonard Bernstein is on his sabbatical. Steinberg will also make his debut with the Metropolitan Opera, conducting 24 performances of three operas. "I have some real killers arranged for New York," he says gleefully, referring to Berlioz' rarely performed Symphonie Funèbre et Triomphale, a work for 180 musicians that will require the West Point Band as well as the Philharmonic, Leon Kirchner's Second Piano Concerto, and the American premi...