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Zubin studied violin and piano, but played indifferently and never joined his school orchestra. By the age of eleven, he knew that he was more interested in becoming a conductor like his father, and like the great figures (Artur Rodzinski, Bruno Walter, Leopold Stokowski) that he saw in the 1947 film Carnegie Hall; a fanatic moviegoer to this day, he sat through it six times. His father, discouraged at the prospects for Western music in India, started him in pre-med courses. "Every time I sat down to cut up a dogfish," Zubin recalls, "there I was with a Brahms...
...Minneapolis-expanded season, summer "play-ins" for Minnesota high schoolers, more stress on cycles of thematically unified concerts and less on big-name soloists -by far the most significant is the generous sampling of provocative modern works. Already this season he has conducted the American premiere of a 1957 violin concerto by French Composer Serge Nigg, and in the months ahead he will present music by Alban Berg, William Schuman and Charles Ives. "Contemporary music, on the whole, is as good as what was written ] 00 or 200 years ago," he insists...
...week, Japan's Seiji Ozawa, 32, conducted programs of Rossini and Hindemith in Canada; Korean Violinist Young Uck Kim, 20, performed Saint-Saëns' Concerto No. 3 in Corpus Christi, Texas; and an eight-year-old Japanese cherub named Hitomi Kasuya played part of a Mozart violin concerto in Albuquerque and in South Euclid, Ohio...
...measure, aired her nominations for the "six worst man-made objects"-it was not such a daring list at that: Manhattan's Pan Am Building, Dali's Last Supper, the suburban builder's typical tacky house, some glass sculpture at Lincoln Center, a lamp with a violin as its base, and the faces on Mount Rushmore...
Aided by this raw manpower-which included a violin maker, elephant and horse trainers, models, doctors and a midwifery expert-the expedition leader, Israeli Archaeologist Yigael Yadin, was able to complete 97% of Masada's excavation. Small portions of the fortress were left untouched to provide visitors with a before-and-after view of the site...