Word: baton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then energetic Conductor Norman Del Mar bounced into the tiny pit for some rehearsing. Explaining how to count time and watch his baton for cues, he put the audience through four songs, three to be sung in turn before the opera's three scenes and a finale to be bellowed out with the opera's cast (one-third professional, two-thirds schoolchildren). That done, intermission was announced; in their growing enthusiasm, most of the audience did not even realize that Let's Make an Opera!, otherwise known as The Little Sweep, was already half over...
Outside the Government's huge $7,500,000 synthetic rubber plant at Baton Rouge one day last week, a crowd of bigwigs gathered. They had come to watch while the Copolymer Corp.,† which operates the plant, switched to 100% production of "cold rubber." It was the first U.S. synthetic plant to make the changeover. Copolymer's President A. L. Freedlander thought his guests were witnessing a revolution...
Cold War. In Baton Rouge, La., an ice company complained to police that a dismissed iceman was continuing to patrol his old route, reversing the signs on housewives' windows to read: "No Ice Today...
Greying Arthur Fiedler, 54, has been getting ah-h-h's from Boston and other cities ever since he first organized his open-air Esplanade concerts in 1929 and took over the baton of the Pops the year after. Boston-born, he grew...
Boston Symphony. His father and two uncles were violinists in the orchestra. After Fiedler graduated from Berlin's Royal Academy, and made his debut as a fiddler at 17, he took a seat with the Boston's strings himself. Soon after he took to the baton, he became too busy to fiddle. Part of the huge repertory he and the Pops have built up: 103 marches, 98 overtures, 115 suites, 81 piano concertos, 51 waltzes, 45 arrangements from musical comedies. Boston Pops recordings now fill more pages in RCA Victor's Red Seal catalogue (160 titles) than...