NATIONAL ORCHESTRA NAMES TOP POPS CONDUCTOR MARVIN HAMLISCH.(MAIN)

, who won a Pulitzer for composing the music of "A Chorus Line," on Friday was named the main conductor of popular music for the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C. The orchestra has been doing pop concerts for 30 years or so, including some Hamlisch has conducted, but this is the first time it has put one musician in command. …