Word: baton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sport coat walked briskly across the stage to the podium. For a few silent moments his glance flickered over the musicians of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, his shale-blue eyes and handsome, melancholy face warm with affection. When his glance had embraced them all, Charles Munch picked up his baton, smiled and said: "Maintenant, relax." A moment later, Boston's 50-year-old Symphony Hall was rocking joyously with the rehearsal of Hector Berlioz' bounding overture, The Corsair...
Strauss was by no means happy with the way conductors handled Beethoven and his favorite, Mozart. "Some so-called wizards of the baton," he wrote, "play Beethoven and Mozart finales as though they were riding a shying horse and had lost the reins." Strauss also felt that he himself had been badly dealt with by publishers, stage directors and actors. His father, first horn at the Munich court opera, had to contribute 1,000 marks ($238) to the printing cost of the F-Minor Symphony. "My fee for Don Juan," Strauss recorded, "was 800 marks ... for Eulenspiegel...
...lead a performance of his cantata St. Nicolas for tenor, mixed voices, string orchestra, piano and percussion, and preside over a production of his opera Albert Herring. Although he has conducted some performances of his English Opera Group in the last two years, he still feels uneasy with a baton. "I never seem to know whether to move my arms to the right or left, or up or down . . ." But he was happy about going west: "The audience out there seems rather enthusiastic about my work...
Schubert: Symphony No. 6 (London Symphony Orchestra, Josef Krips conducting; London FFRR, 8 sides). A delightful, youthful symphony, delightfully performed under the baton of a Viennese Schubert and Mozart master. Recording: excellent...
...shrewd old Henry Kaiser expanded his sprawling industrial empire by leasing three huge Government aluminum processing plants. Last week, for $36 million, Kaiser's Permanente Metals Corp. took title to the plants which had cost $90 million to build. The new properties: 1) a bauxite-processing plant in Baton Rouge with an annual capacity of 500,000,000 lbs. of alumina; 2) the Mead Aluminum Reduction Plant at Mead, Wash., which refines the Baton Rouge alumina, has an annual capacity of 216,000,000 lbs. of aluminum ingots; 3) the Trentwood Rolling Mill, at Trentwood, Wash., which fabricates Mead...