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<text id=93TT0130>
<title>
July 12, 1993: From The Publisher
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
July 12, 1993 Reno:The Real Thing
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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FROM THE PUBLISHER, Page 4
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<p> For his colleagues, the sight of Michael Walsh striding down
the corridors of TIME's New York City offices can mean one of
two things. Either there's a major new production imminent at
the Metropolitan Opera. Or it's dealmaking time in his baseball
Rotisserie league. Walsh, TIME's classical-music critic and
author of this week's story on American orchestras, has been
based in Munich, Germany, since 1989. But he keeps alive an
impressive array of cross-cultural interests. Besides traveling
the Continent to cover cultural matters for TIME International,
Michael is finishing a book on the Nazi era; is midway through
his first novel, an international thriller; and, during the
baseball season, checks his computer every morning for the American
League box scores, all for the stat league he has been part
of since 1982.
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<p> Michael spends nearly a third of his time on this side of the
Atlantic as well, keeping abreast of the U.S. musical scene.
He finds the dual citizenship stimulating. "What I want to do
is bring to our musical coverage the European perspective that
culture is a part of life, not just something one buys a ticket
to." Living in Europe has made Walsh more appreciative of the
high standards of music performance in his home country. This
week's story reflects his opinion that American orchestras are
the best in the world and his confidence that they can survive
the recessionary hard times. "There is nothing wrong with U.S.
orchestras that a few managers with vision and a few conductors
with innovative repertories couldn't fix," he says.
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<p> A military brat born on the Marine Corps base at Camp Lejeune,
North Carolina, Michael did not discover classical music until
age 15. He taught himself orchestration, studying Beethoven
string quartets that he checked out from the library, and attended
the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. Walsh was
classical-music critic for the San Francisco Examiner before
joining TIME in 1981. His passionate, sharply reasoned reviews
have been informed by his eclectic musical tastes, which range
from '60s rock to Broadway melodist Andrew Lloyd Webber, about
whom he wrote a 1988 TIME cover story as well as a book, Andrew
Lloyd Webber: His Life & Works (Abrams). "Classical music suffers
from an image of snobbism," says Walsh. "I've always tried to
make it approachable--to present it to the reader, not as
a rarefied art form but as something everybody can participate
in."
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<p> Elizabeth Valk Long
</p>
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