Word: baton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Benign and serene on a telenquiry program in Chicago, white-maned Conductor Leopold Stokowski, who admits to 70, disclosed that baton-waving gives him both uplift and insomnia: "It's a mystery to me, but one receives enormously something back from the music. It makes me feel strong. After a concert I hear the music all night. I can't sleep that night. All night I hear the music, and I hear the bassoons and the oboes and the different instruments." His view of applause for a performance? "What would you suggest as an alternative to applause? Supposing...
...rest of the evening, he waved an unaccustomed baton (he has been using it to reduce the strain of conducting since he injured his back last fall). On the program: Robert Schumann's overture to Manfred and Richard Strauss's Don Quixote, the same pieces he conducted that day 14 years ago when he took over the Philharmonic as a substitute for ailing Bruno Walter to become the most famous young man about U.S. music. The parallel was obvious, and up in the gallery a new generation of fans whistled and cheered Lennie's happy landing...
...Baton Rouge...
Kirklin has an Eastern tour during spring vacation, a proposed record under the baton of Arthur Fiedler, and a possible European tour in his plans for the coming year...
...relentless temperament. One day, while conducting Don Giovanni in Cologne, he was so moved at the crash of trombone chords announcing the arrival of the statue for dinner with the Don that Klemperer spontaneously stood up and once again began conducting from his feet. He does not use a baton, and when a musician once complained about it, Klemperer shouted, "I cannot hold a baton. Nor could you if you had had a brain tumor...