Rose the cellist rose from orchestras to solo and trio work
New York AP profile of Leonard Rose 53 detailing his career path from NBC Symphony to Cleveland Orchestra and New York Philharmonic. It notes three conductors who supported him, his teaching, family cello lineage, and his Istomin Stern Rose Trio with Istomin and Stern. It also covers his pupil lineage and views on the rise of young cellists.
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New York
Leonard Rose
Rose
Arturo Toscanini
NBC Symphony
Cleveland Orchestra
New York Philharmonic
Bruno Walter
Georg Szell
Dimitri Mitropoulos
Washington, D.C
Curtis Institute of Music
Kiev
United States
Rozofsky
Istomin-Stern-Rose
Eugene Istomin
Isaac Stern
Europe
South America
Kennedy Center
Washington
Japan
Korea
U.S
Stern
Paris
Frose
San Francisco
Cleveland
Boston
Pittsburgh
St. Louis
Toronto
Erich Leinsdorf
Boston Symphony
Great Chicago fire recalled by Colbert and Chamberlin worth revisiting
Viking Press rereleases a facsimile of a contemporary account published three months after the 1871 Chicago fire, marking the centennial. The report describes the blaze from October 8, 1871, its vast destruction, and lists privations with engravings of historic scenes and a moral at the end.
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Elias Colbert
Everett Chamberlin
Viking Press
Chicago
Winds of War grips as sweeping World War II novel
The Winds of War by Herman Wouk is a grand scale World War II epic spanning the United States Europe and the Pacific. Caute notes American novelists tackle large themes while Brits favor personal tales and this 885 page work is praised as Wouk’s strongest since The Caine Mutiny.
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Herman Wouk
Little, Brown & Co
David Caute
United States
Europe
Pacific
Wouk
Victor
Pug
Pug Henry
Lanny Budd
Sinclair
Chippy reunites with a housebound squirrel tale
A reviewer notes Chippy the pet squirrel's story as charming and mischievous, from rescue near Florida on July 7 1965 to life as a family pet, in a lighthearted memoir style. The text also reviews Herman Wouk's Winds of War, praising its vivid characters and historical scope, with an eye toward a sequel.
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Douglas Fairbairn
Chippy
Florida
Nick
Fairbairn
Saturday Review
Pug Henry
U.S
Berlin
Hitler
Wouk
Pug
Franklin Roosevelt
George Marshall
Ernest King
Winston Churchill
Harry Hopkins
Current best sellers list for fiction and nonfiction
Publishers Weekly compiles top sellers with fiction titles including The Day of the Jackal The Exorcist Wheels Hailey Message from Malaga The Other Tryon. Nonfiction entries feature Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee Without Marx or Jesus Revel Any Woman Can Beyond Freedom and Dignity The Gift Horse.
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Forsyth
Blatty
Wheels
Hailey
Malaga
Mac Innes
Tryon
Wounded Knee
Brown
Marx
Jesus
Reuben
Skinner
Knef
Lincoln Center Forum may be saved after all
Lincoln Center's 299 seat Forum faced sale as part of a 52 million dollar plan involving the Vivian Beaumont Theater, City Center and unrelated offices but opposition moved to prevent changes. An ad hoc group led by Dore Schary pushed to keep the Forum, a deadline passed without approval, and the Repertory Company faced a survival plan. The mood shifted as fundraising intensified and directors worked to secure the troupe's future.
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New York
Lincoln Center
Forum
Mammoth Performing Arts Center
Metropolitan Opera
New York Philharmonic
New York City Ballet
Lincoln Center Board of Directors
Vivian Beaumont Theater
City of New York
City Center
Mecca Temple
55Th Street
Beaumont
Mudtown
Beaumont Playhouse
Dore Schary
Schary
Retrospective of Barnett Newman at MoMA Highlights Early and Later Works
New York AP Barnett Newman pioneer of abstract painting is honored in a MoMA retrospective through January 10 featuring over 160 items including 77 paintings and Newman's sculptures. The show centers on works from 1948 onward with the famed Onement stroke and the 25 foot Broken Obelisk, alongside Stations of the Cross pieces and the Yellow and Blue series. The exhibition frames Newman among Pollock Kline Gorky Rothko and Smith as revitalizers of modern art and notes the vertical zip as a defining motif transforming color.
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New York
Barnett Newman
Museum of Modern Art
Newman
Annalee Newman
God
Thomas B. Hess
Adam
Hess
Jackson Pollock
Franz Kline
Arshile Gorky
Mark Rothko
David Smith
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Harbor
Pearl
John Barkham
Saturday Review, Inc
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Publishers’ Weekly
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Seattle
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