LESLEY STAHL PROFILES THE NEW MUSIC DIRECTOR OF THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC, JAAP VAN ZWEDEN, ON SUNDAY’S “60 MINUTES”
Jaap van Zweden, the new music director of the New York Philharmonic, gets the 60 MINUTES treatment on this Sunday’s edition. Lesley Stahl profiles the energetic Dutchman, interviewing him in his new environs in New York and back in his home country of the Netherlands for the report. It will be broadcast on 60 MINUTES Sunday, Oct. 28 (7:00-8:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.
Cameras capture van Zweden conducting his orchestra on opening night in his debut in the new role. Stahl chronicles his rise from modest beginnings in Amsterdam to early stardom as a violinist, to a moment with legendary conductor Leonard Bernstein that spurred his quest to become a conductor at the highly unusual age of 38. The report also addresses the task of making classical music orchestras relevant in today’s culture. Van Zweden has some creative ideas, even considering adding some pop stars into the mix.
Van Zweden joins an illustrious list of maestros who led what is considered one of the world’s foremost orchestras, including Arturo Toscanini, Gustav Mahler and Bernstein.
“If you think of all the phenomenal conductors who were before me, I just can be humble,” he tells Stahl. “Because all of those people were chosen and they proved that they were the right choice. And now it’s my time to prove I was the right choice.”
ON “60 MINUTES”: FORMER ASSISTANT TO CATHOLIC BISHOP OF BUFFALO ACCUSES HIM OF WITHHOLDING THE NAMES OF PRIESTS WITH ACCUSATIONS OF ABUSE AGAINST THEM
Whistleblower Siobhan O’Connor Tells Her Story in Detail for the First Time on Television, Telling Bill Whitaker “Because There Was a Greater Good to Consider”
The former executive assistant to Bishop Richard Malone of Buffalo accuses him of withholding the names of dozens of priests with sex abuse accusations against them from a report released last March. Siobhan O’Connor will detail her story for the first time on television to Bill Whitaker on 60 MINUTES, Sunday Oct. 28 (7:00-8:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.
Hundreds of documents O’Conner secretly copied from the confidential files of the Diocese of Buffalo offer an extraordinary window into Bishop Malone’s decisions about priests accused of abuse. The devout O’Connor professes love for her church and her bishop. But she says she left the diocese last summer after three years because the documents she discovered indicated the bishop had allowed the accused priests to continue in ministry. “The reality of what I saw left me with no other option, because at the end of my life, I’m not going to answer to Bishop Malone, I am going to answer to God,” she tells Whitaker.
“I did betray [Bishop Malone], and yet I can’t apologize for that, because there was a greater good to consider,” says O’Connor.
Whitaker also interviews Deacon Paul Snyder of the Buffalo Diocese. He is the first clergyman of the diocese to call for Bishop Malone’s resignation. The information exposed by O’Connor enraged him. “[Bishop Malone] is behaving in a way that you would typically think a CEO in a corporation that’s being accused of corrupt practices might act, hiding behind attorneys,” he says. Some of the documents O’Connor found were prepared by the dioceses’ attorneys. Watch the excerpt.
Since calling for Bishop Malone to step down, he has received 400 notes and emails. “They want to be part of the solution, but they think this bishop is preventing that,” says Deacon Snyder.
60 MINUTES has learned that the Buffalo diocese is under investigation by federal authorities. Bishop Malone declined to be interviewed by 60 MINUTES.
“60 MINUTES” LISTINGS FOR SUNDAY, OCT. 28
INSIDE THE SECRET ARCHIVE – Church insiders, including a clergyman, tell Bill Whitaker how a bishop failed to remove priests from service even though he knew of credible allegations of abuse against them. Guy Campanile is the producer.
AMERICA’S WAR AGAINST ISIS – Holly Williams goes to the former ISIS stronghold of Raqqa to report on efforts to restore it after the U.S.-led coalition destroyed the Islamist militants’ military capabilities and much of the city in the process. Keith Sharman and Omar Abdulkader are the producers.
JAAP –That would be Jaap van Zweden, the new music director of the New York Philharmonic, an energetic Dutchman with big plans for the famous orchestra. Lesley Stahl reports. Shari Finkelstein and Magalie Laguerre-Wilkinson are the producers
THIS SUNDAY ON “60 MINUTES”: IN ISIS’S FORMER CAPITAL, WHERE WOMEN WERE KILLED AND ABUSED, A WOMAN HAS BECOME THE DE FACTO MAYOR
Laila Mustafa, Civil Council Leader, Calls for Financial Aid to Rebuild her City
When ISIS ruled the Syrian city of Raqqa, Laila Mustafa could have been beaten or worse for appearing in public dressed as she is on this Sunday’s 60 MINUTES. Today, the city’s former masters would be shocked and dismayed to see that she is the de facto mayor of their former stronghold. Mustafa appears in a Holly Williams report on how she is attempting to rebuild her war-torn city, as the U.S. coalition continues to find, capture and kill ISIS militants in Syria. It will be broadcast on 60 MINUTES Sunday, Oct. 28 (7:00-8:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.
Mustafa is a civil engineer. Her skills and leadership qualities attracted her to community leaders who appointed her co-president of the Raqqa Civil Council. In this capacity, she leads efforts to rebuild the decimated city, but she’s short on funds. “The support we are getting isn’t enough to meet our needs,” she tells Williams. The U.S. State Department recently froze and then cancelled $200 million in civilian aid.
Mustafa has supporters in the U.S. Senate who believe rebuilding the city is tantamount to keeping ISIS at bay. Lindsey Graham (S.C.) and Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.) spoke to Williams for this report. Says Graham, “Her success is our success. So here’s what I would say to her: We’re all in to help you because if you’re in charge of Raqqa, ISIS won’t come back and you can live in peace with us.” Graham called Mustafa’s role in the former ISIS capital “poetic justice.”
The last thing Mustafa wants is a return to the way things were under ISIS. “They used to kill innocent civilians in Raqqa, put their heads on spikes for days,” she recalls. “They wanted to show brutality in order to make people obey them.” ISIS sleeper cells still linger within the city of Raqqa, says Mustafa, who also told 60 MINUTES that if the city is not rebuilt, it will become fertile ground for the extremists to regroup.
For now, she and her supporters are a new order and a powerful rebuttal to ISIS’s time in charge. “A challenge to the mentality of ISIS. And a challenge for women to emerge from the struggles of injustice, violence, and exploitation,” says Mustafa.
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