Word: baton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bernstein conducted without a baton, frequently humming or singing with the orchestra. The second work was his own Jeremiah Symphony. The score of it had gone astray somewhere between Athens, Cairo and Jerusalem. Another copy arrived by air only three days before the concert. But Bernstein got the yoman orchestra through it deftly. That called for five bows. Then he played the solo part of Ravel's Piano Concerto, conducting from the piano. Some of the more critical in the audience thought they had heard better performances, but if Bernstein had played Pop! Goes the Weasel, the audience would...
Traditional performers at the final concert of the Symphony's Friday-Saturday series, the Glee Club will sing the Choral Symphony under Serge Koussevitaky's baton for the third consecutive year...
Nimble fingered, high-stepping men who "got rhythm" are in demand by the expanding University Band, which opens its competition for drum major and baton-twirler today. Qualified candidates should report to the Band office in the Music Building today or tomorrow for a screening by a board of baton experts, manager Walter J. Skinner '48 announced yesterday...
...archbishop starts the Mass, José points with a baton at Santa María de Guadalupe, and the bell begins tolling. One by one José brings in the other bells, not just the eight played on ordinary days, but special bells like San Pedro, San Antonio. Then he silences them, each in turn, until only Santo Angel de la Guarda, sweetest-toned of all, tolls softly, a sign that down below in the cathedral the sermon is being preached. At the Gloria, he swings up his arms and all 18 bells peal out. José, the bellringer, stands...
Under the baton of Irving G. Fine '37, assistant professor of Music and adviser to the Music Club, the club's chamber orchestra will be going through the third performance of its brief career at Saturday's concert...