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Also this week the Californian steps up the tempo of his unannounced campaign with speeches to New York Conservative Party members in Manhattan, Republicans in Long Island's Suffolk County, the World Affairs Council in Philadelphia and the Yale Political Union in New Haven. After similar swings through Minnesota and New Mexico in the coming weeks, associates say, he will formally announce his candidacy in late November at a splashy Washington press conference, followed by quick visits to major cities and a publicity blitz...
Sieber explained the tempo of the staggered start race yesterday, "We got so far out in front that we couldn't see the next boat. We knew we could win but we didn't have anyone to race against...
...groups like the Summer School Chorus, which he is conducting this year. Most choral conductors spend a lot of time going over the music slowly until each section has learned its notes. Only then do they begin to work on musical values. But Chen takes the music up to tempo from the very first. "If I let everyone carefully study their notes, when I want to go fast, they won't be able to go fast any more." He fears that his singers will get lost in minutae and obscure the larger shapes that he is trying to create...
Never in Western music has there been so much concern with faithfulness to the written score as in the last twenty years. There is a feeling current in many conductors that dynamic markings and tempo indications must be as carefully observed as the notes themselves. Chen considers this kind of "honesty" the most basic part of a conductor's obligation. "You can build the most fancy skyscrapers, modern, artistic looking buildings, but you can't forget to put in the toilet. There is no illusion about all these dreamy, misty-eyed things. You put that crap-house...
...Industrial production, after eight consecutive months of decline, rose in June at an annual rate of 4.9%. The heightened tempo was especially noticeable in consumer goods, textile and chemical industries...