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Career No. 1, conducting, has led him to the podium of almost every major symphony orchestra from Pittsburgh to Palestine. He has conducted Italian opera at La Scala, Schumann in Munich, Bartok in Budapest?each time to cheers. He has just been appointed co-conductor of the New York Philharmonic (with Dimitri Mitropoulos, who is very likely to quit soon). This week he wound up a six-week conducting stint with the Philharmonic that was notable for his unhackneyed programing, e.g., Bartok's Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, Vivaldi's rarely heard Concerto for Strings, Cembalo and Two Mandolins...
...Nature, Dr. M. Lindauer of the University of Munich tells how bees reach their decision. Prosperous colonies send out swarms when nectar is plentiful and storage cells are full of honey. A few days before the emotional orgy that results in swarming, forager bees have been returning to the hive to find neither need nor space for the nectar they have gathered. On their next trips they do not look for nectar. Instead, they investigate knotholes and crannies under rocks. Some built-in nervous mechanism has reminded them that when the colony needs no more nectar, it will soon need...
...dailies or magazines can match the best papers in the rest of Europe; German publishers still take greater pride in long-winded Page One editorials than accurate reporting. The news is stodgily written and frequently outdated, since even such big dailies as Hamburg's Die Welt and Munich's Süddeutsche Zeitung pinch pfennigs by making correspondents mail in copy...
...facts about his professional background, few of his colleagues ever got to know very much about the solemn, sullen associate professor in engineering that St. Louis University hired in the summer of '54. Born in the Ukraine, Orest Stephen Makar, 47, had taught in Warsaw and Munich before coming to the U.S. in 1949. He was a specialist in photogrammetry,* worked for the U.S. Interior Department's Geodetic Survey, later got limited security clearance for a job at the White Sands Proving Ground in New Mexico. By the time he arrived in St. Louis, he and his wife...
Taking his painting cues from Gauguin, Van Gogh and Matisse, Jawlensky learned to orchestrate the hot, fauve colors in the series of portraits that rank as his best work, teamed up with Kandinsky on summer painting vacations outside Munich. Their favorite pastime: placing their paintings on a piano for a Russian pianist to interpret in music...