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<text id=91TT2135>
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Sep. 23, 1991: View Points:Music
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Sep. 23, 1991 Lost Tribes, Lost Knowledge
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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VIEW POINTS, Page 73
MUSIC
An Ambassador Arrives
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<p>By Christopher Porterfield
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<p> All the right protocol was observed. KURT MASUR, making
his first appearance as music director of the New York
Philharmonic (succeeding Zubin Mehta), rightly judged that the
occasion was more ceremonial than musical. So the German maestro
began with a polite bow to America, conducting two short pieces
by contemporary composer John Adams and a set of Old American
Songs by Aaron Copland (winningly sung by baritone Thomas
Hampson). Then Masur, who has led Leipzig's venerable Gewandhaus
Orchestra since 1970, reached under his tailcoat and produced
his own credential: an authoritative, warmly expressive version
of Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 7. This served to remind the
Lincoln Center faithful (and a national TV audience) that his
roots lie deep in the European romantic tradition. Clearly
Masur, 64, a one-man back-to-basics movement, intends to move
the brilliant, erratic, often fractious Philharmonic more into
line with that tradition--diplomatically, of course. Judging
from the way the musicians played for him, they seem eager to
get there.
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