Word: baton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conducted many an uproarious premiere of their raucous and startling works-as they seemed then. Stravinsky's Les Noces, De Falla's Le Tricorne, Ravel's La Valse, Honegger's Pacific 231 (which is dedicated to Ansermet) had first come to life under his baton. Between premieres and table-pounding talk with Picasso, Diaghilev, Prokofiev and Stravinsky ("a man of great culture-and the best businessman I ever knew"), Ansermet mastered the classics-without losing his appetite for the moderns...
Grey-haired French Conductor Charles Münch, a conductor of the windmill school, lifted his baton and the cellos rumbled out a dark and ominous theme. Poet Claudel had first tied his heroine to the stake, then let her mind wander through agonizing flashbacks: memories of the coarse yells of the mob, a howling dog, rolling drums. Standout scene: Joan's trial. Claudel and Honegger make her judges animals, with Porcus, a pig, presiding. Porcus (dramatically sung by Tenor Joseph Laderoute) screams his charges and denunciations, and the chorus howls "Hérétique! . . . Sorci...
Christmas carols will echo through Memorial Church tonight at 8:15 o'clock when the Chair of the Church and the Radcliffe Choral Society combine under the baton of choirmaster G. Wallace Woodworth '24 to present the annual Christmas Service...
...cello quartet passage that had troubled him 60 years before, and when their playing of it did not suit him, he turned to the cellists with a look of contained rage that was as effective as a blow-off would have been. Other times, in dissatisfaction, he slapped his baton fitfully against his trouser...
...stopped the orchestra, looked up a passage in the score with his nose almost touching the page, and then, his darkest suspicions confirmed, whacked the score with his baton and shouted directions to the strings. He exhorted, implored and cursed in Italian. He sang a troublesome passage for the orchestra in his croaky voice. When the chorus mumbled, he said sharply, in Italianized English that was hard to understand: "Let me hear the words. There is not a word that has no meaning." For an erring violinist, he indulged his own brand of humor: "If you play that wrong Saturday...