Word: talentedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Javits' vote-getting talent in urban areas would be a big help in California, Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania?which among them carry a whopping 202 of the 270 votes needed for election...
...their Brahms. Mehta was equally successful with Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé Suites, a piece that, until a few years ago, the orchestra could barely manage, owing to a marked deficiency in the brass and woodwinds sections. The short-windedness has since been cured by luring foreign talent-for example, Trombonist Ray Parnes from the Pittsburgh Symphony-with guarantees of rent-free $30,000 homes. Now, says Mehta, "the Israel Philharmonic stands up with the best in Europe, and in the strings it is superior to most orchestras in the U.S. It has virtuosity and temperament...
Brain Trust. Lots of temperament. The orchestra is a cooperative: the musicians set their own salaries (based, among other things, on the number of family dependents rather than talent), own a $500,000 guesthouse for visiting artists as well as half-interest in the $2,800,000 Mann Auditorium in Tel Aviv, their permanent home. This, and the freedom from the discipline of a permanent conductor, has nurtured a strong streak of independence. "If the orchestra has any shortcomings," explains Mehta, "it is in its tendency toward musical anarchy. At rehearsals you suddenly find yourself in the middle...
...fact, opera attendance in Italy has slipped off by more than 30% in the past 15 years. At the core of the problem is a serious deficiency in young talent. Time was when there were as many first-rate young singers in Italy as pigeons in Piazza del Duomo. But now, with the high cost of training, most singers are not willing to devote the seven to ten years necessary to cultivate their voices. Moreover, the number of Italian opera houses where a fledgling singer can test his roulades has declined from 80 in 1930 to only 17 today...
...women with baby carriages, the architects provided a peaceful, elevated sitting area, walled in to keep out wind and noise. Next to it they scooped out a sunken 1,000-seat amphitheater; it has already been booked throughout the summer for free concerts and sing-alongs, ballet and amateur talent shows, and will be used this June for local high school graduation exercises...