MUSIC

Masur to Keep East German Post: East German conductor Kurt Masur, named last week to be music director of the New York Philharmonic, said he will keep his orchestral post in Leipzig even after he starts the new job in 1992. “Lots of conductors work with two, even three orchestras at a time,” said the musical director of the Gewandhaus Orchestra. “In fact, I’ll be conducting fewer performances in New York than in Leipzig.” But despite an active role in his country’s democratic revolution last year, Masur said he has no plans to follow fellow artists such as Czechoslovak playwright Vaclav Havel and Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa into politics: “Being a musician is a wonderful profession. Why should I change?”