Symphony orchestras face funding pressures and future changes
Miles A. South reports that McNeill Lowry outlines the Ford Foundation endowment program impact on American symphonies. He notes good progress on matching funds but rising maintenance costs threaten campaigns. Inflation, labor contracts, and concerns at several major and metro orchestras suggest possible moves to smaller ensembles alongside the big symphonies.
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Ford Foundation
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Expert forecast: sunshine and changing musical careers
Expert notes predict a shift in concert life with more chamber and small ensemble work as colleges provide audiences for short term appearances. He says youth may favor smaller groups over large orchestras, but the symphony will persist beyond a new decade amid funding strains.
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Whitney Museum Realists Survey Highlights Figurative Painting
New York Whitney Museum presents the exhibition 22 Realists directed by James K. Monte. It surveys recent developments in figurative painting with 76 works by 22 artists, contrasting traditional pictorial illusionism with post Pop revisionism and use of photographs as tools or subjects.
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API
Whitney Museum of American Art
James K. Monte
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Whitney Museum
Richard Estes
Delectable Taste of Scotland's Famous Whisky History
Scottish born essayist and professor delves into Scotland’s celebrated international whisky. He traces history, explains production, maturation and blending of casks, and argues why true Scotch surpasses foreign whiskies. The book blends tasting notes with cultural context and brand bouquets.
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Catches
Lorain Lawyer Barrett Publishes Poetry Volume
Lorain attorney William M. Barrett, long practicing since 1933, has published a poetry collection titled This unbegotten Paradise. The Lorain native, Fordham Law School graduate, also wrote The Song of the Warsaw Ghetto and several plays. He once led the Ohio Poetry Society as president in 1958 59.
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Willam M. Barrett
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Warsaw Ghetto
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Fordham University Law School
Ohio Poetry Society
Big bands may be on the way back in New York
A reporter visits a second floor rehearsal loft near Sixth Avenue where about a dozen musicians warm up under the gaze of Billy Berry, a trumpeter linked to the Merv Griffin Show. The piece notes the dwindling era of big bands yet highlights Basie, Herman, and Ellington as thriving icons maintaining musical integrity amid industry shifts.
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Redman
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Count Basie
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Herman
Thad Jones
Mel Lewis
Clark Terry
Chuck Israels
Sam Brown
Duke Pearson
Dave Remington
Chicago
Tommy Vig
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Gerald Wilson
Oliver Nelson
Los Angeles
New York
Berry
Ellington
Duke
Sixth Avenue
Zoot Sims
al Cohen
Dick Gibson
Roosevelt Hotel
Bill Berry
Benny Goodman
West Berlin group brings opera to workers in factory
West Berlin Municipal Opera launches a campaign to popularize opera with a Die Kluge performance in Osram factory Wedding. Four hundred of 3,800 workers stay after shift to watch as director Winfried Bauernfeind plans more factory shows, arguing tax‑funded art must reach the people.
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Wedding
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Bauernfeind
Woman Wins Golden Door Award for 1970
Lila Acheson Wallace cofounder of Reader's Digest becomes the first woman chosen for the Golden Door Award. The Polish Canadian born philanthropist and widow of DeWitt Wallace is recognized for her World War I YWCA work and major gifts to the arts and education, with April 15 honors at the Pierre Hotel.
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David Dubinsky
Samuel Goldwyn
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Lila Acheson Wallace
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Lila Acheson
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Tenn
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Thomas E. Dewey
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Norman Cousins
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