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Like Beethoven, Mahler and other musical visionaries, Carter is convinced that time will tell well. Only in the past season or two, for example, has he begun to hear performances (by Sir Georg Solti and the Chicago Sympho ny) of his 17-year-old Variations for Orchestra that have pleased him - and audiences. By rights, the String Quartet No. 3 should not have to wait that long...
...Showman. To raise money for his orchestra, Katims appears at fashion shows and candlelight musicales. at "Meet the Maestro'' luncheons and "Sympho-neve" dances. He has been known to turn his baton over in midconcert to civic-minded businessmen and, in one case, to a seven-year-old child. To warm an audience up, he may crack jokes between numbers or invite it to join him in singing The Star-Spangled Banner. Last week hard-selling Conductor Katims staged a concert titled "Composium Nineteen-Sixty," featuring works of five resident Seattle composers. Most of the works were pleasantly...
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