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...also accused of conducting too many performances, freezing out eminent guest conductors. "The weakness of the conducting staff is a manifestation of his own ego," says one disgruntled Met musician. "Where are the likes of Claudio Abbado, Riccardo Muti, Sir Georg Solti, Zubin Mehta, Lorin Maazel and Sir Colin Davis?" With Levine leading 78 performances this season, there is always the possibility that the orchestra will grow stale. Says Met Conductor Jeffrey Tate: "All orchestras like guests. They see Jimmy all the time, and there is a great danger for both of them in this. They must loathe him sometimes...
...tape, to TV. Would the production be "too ... tremendous" to fit into the home screen? Ideally, actors would have crept out of the TV frame, perched on top of the console, strolled across the living-room rug to shake out the viewer's passive complacencies. Practically, TV Producer Colin Callender and Director Jim Goddard had two options. They could create a new production for television, with naturalistic sets and discrete scenes, thus reducing the grand babble to Masterpiece Theater whispers. Or they could allow the actors to trace their familiar patterns, asprawl on the big stage, and catch...
...Quintero noticed Tom Lanz and Colin Ball two of Harvard's all time best hammer throwers--doing their thing, and he became intrigued...
...Colin throw the hammer, and it was beautiful. He was a small guy, but his technique was so perfect he made it look effortless...
...building was designed by Colin Madigan, of the North Sydney firm of Edwards Madigan Torzillo Briggs Pty. Ltd., in a high-speech version of the idiom that used to be called New Brutalism 20 years ago-aggressive concrete planes and deep slots of shadow, directly descended from late Le Corbusier. To this is added some invocation of palace and fortress architecture. The plan has a very strong sense of procession, and is designed to allow a large flow of visitors, estimated at about 1 million a year, to stream through its halls. Three of its sides look like an irresolute...