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...York Philharmonic to succeed avant-garde composer and conductor Pierre Boulez. Not everyone in New York was delighted. Boulez had been a cool, ascetic leader. Mehta, by comparison, had a reputation for more gloss than substance. There was the question of his repertoire, which stressed Tchaikovsky and Strauss to the detriment of the early classics. Finally there was his famous contretemps with the Philharmonic. In 1967 he enraged the New Yorkers by reportedly declaring that his own Los Angeles Philharmonic was better, that New York musicians were an ornery bunch, and that he wasn't interested in succeeding Leonard...
Tennstedt will offer a complementary repertoire as principal guest conductor, favoring Bruckner, Strauss and Mahler. The former director of the State Orchestra in Schwerin, Tennstedt has a fluid line, springy beat and a confident technical mastery. He has never formally studied conducting. "Oh, you can learn tricks," he observes. "But the contact with an orchestra? You must have...
Wilmot helped organize Democratic fundraising dinners in the mid-1970s, when Robert Strauss headed the Democratic National Committee and funneled legal work on his aviation and real estate interests to Strauss's Dallas law firm. When Strauss left the board of Columbia Pictures to join the Carter Administration last year, Wilmot took Strauss's seat...
...White House, where officials praised his talents as an administrator. Most important, Vice President Walter Mondale was assigned the task of finding him another job. At midweek, the White House announced that Griffin had accepted a newly created $50,000-a-year appointment as a "senior assistant" to Robert Strauss, the President's Special Trade Representative and Counselor on inflation...
Nobody seemed to know exactly what Griffin was supposed to do-"a little of everything," said Strauss-but it was obvious that, with his congressional connections, he could be useful in lobbying. Tip O'Neill seemed partially mollified. "The performance between the Administration and the Speaker's office is on the same course as it has always been," he said...