THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Burg in Trouble
Friday, October 14, 1977 49
erner - rorkanowsky Conducts Orchestra IRVING'S1
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TEL AVIV (ZINS)—The
n ewspaper Ha'aretz says
that Dr. Yosef Burg, head of
the
National
Religious
Party. is the target of the
`I same group of "young
Turks" who forced the res-
ignation • of Burg's
predecessor.
The group includes Zevu-
Ion HaMmer, minister of
education: Aharon Abu Hat-
zira, minister of religion:
and Knesseter Yehuda Ben-
Meir. The paper speculates
urg would be replaced
-Meir.
Werner
.Torkanowsky,
guest conductor and associ-
ate to the music director for
the Detroit Symphony
Orchestra, will conduct the
DSO for the Zionist Organi-
zation of Detroit's annual
Balfour Councert to take
place 8 p.m. Nov. 6 at Ford
Auditorium.
Torkanowsky made his
Detroit Symphony con-
ducting debut in January
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1961, and he has appeared
before the orchestra fre-
quently since that time. His
most recent appearances
were in November 1976,
when he stepped in to .
replace the ailing Klaus
Tennstedt. Torkanowsky
recently was selected by
Isaac Stern to conduct the
Paris premiere perform-
ance of George Rochberg's
Concerto Tor Violin and
Orchestra.
Torkanowsky, who for the
past 14 years served as
music director and con-
ductor of the New Orleans
Philharmonic-Symphony
Orchestra, made his debut
as an orchestral conductor
with the Minneapolis Sym
phony (now Minnesota
Orchestra) in 1960. Since
that time, he has conducted
nearly every major orches-
tra in the United States.
Torkanowsky was born in
Germany in 1926 and emi-
grated with his parents to
Israel when he was six
years old.
He received his earliest
training from his mother,
NY Undecided on Klan-Nazi Show
NEW YORK (JTA)—Th e.
major public television sta
tion in the area. WINE T
(Channel 13), planS to do it
own program dealing wit h
the issues raised by a con
troversial television pro
gram featuring a Ku Klux
Klan leader and an Ameri-
can Nazi leader but has not
reached a decision on
whether it will telecast the
disputed program. a WNET
spokesperson said last
week.
Yad Vashem
• The spokesperson stead-
fastly refused to comment
Honors Gentiles
on whether the WNET deci-
JERUSALEM
(JTA)
sion to produce its own pro-
'The Yad Vashem has .hon
gram did not clearly imply
ored a number of "Right
a decision not to show a
eons Gentiles" who risked
Public Broadcast Service
their lives during Worl d
(PBS) "Black Perspective
War II to save the lives o f on the News."
The disputed
Jews.
program. taped for PBS by
Dr. Carl Hermann, o f WHYY-TV (Channel 12) of
West Germany, who died
Philadelphia,
features
and his wife, Eva Hermann
David Duke, KKK Imperial
were honored for saving
Wizard and Frank Collins.
Jewish lives in the town of
American Nazi Party head.
Manheim throughout th e
PBS sponsors such pro-
war and suffering priso n
grarns and offers them to its
sentences for their activi
affiliates. which have the
ties. Carl was -imprisoned
option to determine whether
for two years and Eva for
to telecast them. Three PBS
stations did show the 90-
three. She was in Israel for
the ceremony.
minute program Oct.1—
Washington, D.C.. Min-
Other trees were planted
neapolis and Philadelphia.
in honor of Hendrik and
The spokesperson said.
Emma-Anna Jonkers, Alice
that WNET had checked _
Alida Balvers, M.A. Nut-
with "sister" stations and
ting-Disch and Simon
learned that the _PBS sta-
Schoon, all of Holland; Pas-
tions in Dallas. Muni.
tor John van de Stegge of
Detroit. Chicago, St. Louis
Belgium, and Jan and
Maria Caraj . of and Boston had decided not
to show the program while
Czechoslovakia.
the Los Angeles station was
still considering it . "
NY Rabbis
—
Co.
who was a conceit pianist,
and later began studying
violin with members of the
orchestra in Tel Aviv. In
1948, Torkanowsky arrived
in New York to study violin
with Raphael Bronstein;
and from 1954 to 1959, he
studied conducting at
L'Ecole Monteux.
In 1961, as winner of the
coveted Naumberg Award,
Torkanowsky made his first
guest conducting appear-
ance with the New York
Philharmonic. He has sub-
sequently made appear-
ances with the orchestras of
cities such as Philadelphia,
Boston, Detroit, Cincinnati,
St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Balti-
more, San Francisco and
Los -Angeles.
He has also conducted
performances at festivals
such as Ravinia, Aspen and
the Festival of Two Worlds
in Spoleto, Italy.
Torkanovisity has con-
- ducted- major orchestras in
France, Spain, Italy, South
America and Israel. In sum-
mer 1974, he took the Israel
Philharmonic on tour -in
South Africa. In 1975, he
appeared with the Royal
Philharmonic Orchestra in
both England and Spain.
Recently, he appeared with
the London Symphony at the
Casals Festival in Mexico.
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NEW YORK—Rabbi Paul
L. Hait, _the new executive
director of the New York
Board of Rabbis, and Victor
B. Geller, newly appointed
dean of the Division of Com-
munal Services, Rabbi
Isaac Elchanan Theological
Seminary (RIETS), will be
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convention of the alumni of
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