Philharmonic goes uptown
There were 2,000 of them, laughing and waving their programs in the humid evening air. They overflowed from the pews onto folding chairs; they stood on windowsills, squeezed into doorways and gathered in the street outside. Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church had not seen such a festive crowd since the days when Adam Clayton Powell Jr. sounded forth from the pulpit. Last week the pulpit had given way to a specially built wooden stage, and what sounded forth was the New York Philharmonic.
"The orchestra had been to South Korea, the Soviet Union, every place in the world, and not to...
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