Word: conductor
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...astounding depth as well as breadth of Liszt's legacy emerges. Yes, he was a sensualist, but it was also Liszt, tireless in his charity work, who invented the benefit concert, who realized the piano's vast potential and created the modern piano recital, who became the first modern conductor, concerned with musical lines, color and expression rather than simply beating time. As proselytizer he sped the acceptance of countless composers. As the inspirational teacher of a Burke's Peerage of younger pianists, he originated master classes (and, though his own means were slight, he never accepted a fee). Moreover...
DIED. RAFAEL KUBELIK, 82, Bohemian-born maestro; in Lucerne, Switzerland. Son of renowned violinist Jan Kubelik, he became, at 27, chief conductor of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra in Prague. Seeking artistic freedom, he left Czechoslovakia when it went communist in 1948. Over the years he led the Chicago Symphony and Munich's Bavarian Radio Symphony...
...made 10 appearances in the past year--he harbors no illusions about making conducting a second career. He donates his fees to charity and turns down invitations to lead other Mahler works, most recently a Das Lied von der Erde in Vienna. "I don't regard myself as a conductor," he says. "The driving force with me was always the music." In this day of bored, globe-trotting professionals, those are sentiments to be resurrected...
...Expressway. Here it is still around 1948. The people work for a living, know one another's business, tend to their green squares of land and (most of the time) love America. Take the Long Island Rail Road from Manhattan, and you understand these places at once. After the conductor calls out the suburbs, the names of the stations get rougher: "Patchogue!" "Moriches!" You are too far east to commute to the city and not far east enough, or rich enough, to occupy what a young woman here calls "those houses that nobody lives...
Emmerich, 40, the conductor of ID4's wild ride, is a can-do scholar of Hollywood moviemaking; he has built a reputation for efficient melodramas on modest budgets. (For all its locations and effects and the mandatory cast of thousands, ID4 reportedly cost a thrifty $71 million.) Emmerich first fell under the spell of science fiction as a boy watching U.S. films as well as local sci-fi TV shows in his native Germany. "For me," he says, "going on a science-fiction movie set is like visiting toyland. You see, my brother trashed all my toys when...