Word: consulate
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Pickup Jobs. One day next month, tall, handsome Conductor Schippers (6 ft. 3 in., 175 Ibs.) will celebrate two milestones: his 30th birthday ("at last") and the tenth anniversary of his debut as a conductor (in Gian Carlo Menotti's The Consul). Although he has moved farther and faster than any other U.S. conductor in the last decade, Schippers shows little of the hungry will to succeed that has always characterized that earlier Wunderkind, Leonard Bernstein. Nor does Schippers have Composer-Conductor-Pianist Bernstein's determination to be a Renaissance man-about-music. When he decided to become...
...Reformed Church, by joining St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Kalamazoo-because it had a good boys' choir. Schippers managed to finish high school when he was 13, moved to Philadelphia's Curtis Institute. After graduation he got a series of pickup jobs that led to Consul (he caught Composer Menotti's attention while coaching singers for the show) and to the Met, which signed him as the third U.S.-born regular conductor in its 77-year history...