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...Academy of Music provided a pretty fine evening of dance as well, with Mikhail Baryshnikov, Harold Nicholas, Gregg Burge and the Mutt-and-Jeff tandem of Tommy Tune and Drew Barrymore finding new steps for some unforgettable old melodies. Nor would anyone think of shooting the piano players. Michael Tilson Thomas opened with Rhapsody in Blue. Later Leonard Bernstein brought a furious solemnity to Gershwin's Prelude in C-sharp Minor. And at the climax Movie Maestro Johnny Green unearthed half-century-old arrangements of Gershwin songs and made them swing like...
...year-old Tilson was dressed in a business suit and pumps, which she said she had chosendeliberately to prove "straight people" protesttoo...
...some, protesting runs in the family. Susan Tilson attended yesterday's protest against the Secretary of State with her son Whitney '89. While mom said that she has been to numerous protests, her son said that yesterday's was his first...
Even Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, who led the Four Organs performance at Carnegie Hall, has reservations. "Minimalism still has a lot to come to terms with," he says. "Will it show us dichotomies of human nature and thought that have made good classical music fascinating through the years?" Conductor Mehta, despite his championing of Reich's Tehillim, also sees some limitations. "After all," Mehta says, drawing an analogy to painting, "Seurat and his points didn't go on too long. I don't think it could last...
...Davies, 38, won praise as the leader of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra but left in 1980 to direct the Stuttgart Opera in Germany. James Conlon, 32, recently was named music director of the Rotterdam Philharmonic-succeeding Zinman, who spent much of his early career in The Netherlands. Michael Tilson Thomas, 37, after an eight-year stint as the Buffalo Philharmonic's music director, now spends his time guest conducting both here and abroad. Perhaps the most successful of all the young Americans is James Levine, 38, who holds the powerful job of music director at the Metropolitan Opera...