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Currently before the Massachusetts Senate is an attempt to freeze the recent outpouring of emotion over "jury-tapping" into legislation. The bill, like its national counterpart, would forbid projects such as the University of Chicago was conducting in the Wichita, Kansas, federal courts where secret tape recordings were made of juries in action as part of a study on how juries arrive at their decisions. The outcry looks like a crusade for the rights of man at first, but on closer scrutiny seems to be nothing more than a trompe d'oeil on the part of those who have made...
...such they may and should be left to the judges and lawyers who administer the jury system. These court officers are in a far better position than anyone else to decide how far the study may go before it interferes with the jury's function. In the Wichita cases, both the courts and counsel gave their permission and nothing in the furor since indicates that any harm came of their doing...
...Much of Wichita's musical revolution was achieved by Symphony Manager Alan Watrous, 55, who believes that a community must grow its own culture ("I hate that word, but what the devil else can you call it?") rather than buy it outside. A violinist and onetime music teacher, Manager Watrous has a special culture-growing formula: get the symphony and school system to work together. A string quartet of symphony players gives 80 concerts a year in schoolrooms. Twice a year, the orchestra plays student concerts at the rate of four a day-no buses shuttle one crowd...
...Wichita Symphony's musicians only make $400-$500 a season, but more than half also teach in schools. The kind of life that combines teaching and music-making has drawn many players from big-city orchestras. "I was just one of scores of musicians in the city," says one performer. "I had to scrounge for additional income. I lived in a crowded, third-rate neighborhood. Here. I'm buying my own home in a clean, airy neighborhood, and I'm considered one of the leading members of the local music world. My teaching job gives me more...
...Wichita's musical life is rich and happy, but there is still one element missing. With two papers and a population of 200,000, the city has no regular music critic. But Wichita manages to enjoy its music anyway...