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Schubert, Symphony No. 9 in C; Debussy, Ibéria and La Mer; Berlioz, Queen Mab Scherzo; Respighi, Feste Romane; Mendelssohn, A Midsummer Night's Dream; Strauss, Death and Transfiguration; Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 6 (Pathétique): The Philadelphia Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini conducting (5 LPs, RCA). When Toscanini made these recordings in 1941-42 with the orchestra Leopold Stokowski had built, it was astonishing, then as now, to note how readily the musicians yielded their lush sound and fat phrasing to the brilliant, transparent, sharply contoured style that Toscanini favored. The resulting interpretations are still splendid to hear-spacious...
Massachusetts Youth Wind Ensemble. Frank Battisti and Carl Atkins conduct works of Vaughan Williams, Handel, Benson, R. Strauss and Perisichetti at 2:30 p.m. at Jordan Hall, NEC. Free...
...were in, some political analysts went so far as to speculate that Fritz Mondale had been the difference between victory and defeat for the Carter ticket. "The best decision that Jimmy made about the whole campaign was picking Fritz Mondale as his running mate," said Democratic National Chairman Robert Strauss. Carter Adviser Hamilton Jordan told TIME Correspondent John Stacks that Mondale had indeed proved valuable, particularly after his strong showing in the precedent-setting vice-presidential debate with Republican Robert Dole. Said Jordan of the debate: "It gave us two or three extra points, a huge impact. A number...
...Sunday and all Monday night to watch the pros "execute" and play almost fundamentally perfect football, with all the violence of a Barretta episode and all the cheering of Strauss Hall during "Charlie's Angels." So why not set aside Saturday for a bunch of guys really giving it The Olde College...
Traded Invectives. The Schmidt-Kohl campaign was one of the hardest fought political battles in West Germany's postwar history, and what Kohl called an "Olympics of insult" went right down to the wire. Continuing his sniping against Kohl's political ally Franz Josef Strauss, boss of the Christian Social Union and Kohl's declared choice as Vice Chancellor, Schmidt scourged the bully Bavarian conservative as a "political arsonist." Strauss returned the fire by lambasting Schmidt as "a politician with a predator's grin," and Kohl hooted that Schmidt had "lost control 50 of himself...