Word: skrowaczewski
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...Until one sees Stanislaw Skrowaczewski laugh out loud in the midst of a rapturously joyful piece of Haydn, or watches him reach out his arms to conduct a Bruck ner symphony with all the tenderness of a father embracing his first-born child, then one is missing many facets of our Minnesota maestro...
Four years after adopting a more regional stance, the former Minneapolis Symphony has a broad base of audience popularity and an equally broad range of musical style, thanks largely to its stern, businesslike mentor, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski...
...Minnesota Orchestra. More than just a semantic gimmick, that symbolized the orchestra's intention to become regional rather than a municipal enterprise. As a result, it could now zero in on large, untapped financial sources in Saint Paul and other Minnesota communities. Under Polish Conductor Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, who had been programming an imaginative spectrum of Western music, the orchestra began presenting school concerts all over the state, lowering student-ticket prices at Northrop Auditorium in Minneapolis to $1. When it became apparent that new audiences were being reached, donations from previously untapped sources began to pour...
Indeed "they" have, all the way from such solidly schooled, well-established figures as the Minneapolis Symphony's Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, 44, and the Amsterdam Concertgebouw's Bernard Haitink, 38, down to such newer personalities as the Houston Symphony's André Previn, 38, and the Met's Thomas Schippers, 37. At the top is a crack cadre of gifted conductors...
...Skrowaczewski's efforts have convinced Minneapolis civic leaders that, in the words of one symphony official, "it's now possible for us to have one of the great orchestras of the world." The orchestra has launched a drive to raise $10 million in capital funds, is planning to enlarge from its current 94 players to 105, and is already underwriting more tours. This month it will airlift the entire production of Penderecki's Passion to New York City for a performance in Carnegie Hall. "In a sense," says Orchestra Manager Richard Cisek, "we're declaring...