Word: baton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ashen-faced concertmaster. "The maestro can't go on. Perhaps if you took a moment to look at the score . . ." The world's greatest undiscovered conductor rose from his seat on the aisle. "A score won't be necessary," said Walter Mitty quietly. "Where is the baton...
...started affixing location tags to the rows of folding seats. At C-hour-minus-30 minutes, the national flags of Viet Nam and the U.S. were in place. As the darkness gathered, the men of the orchestra took their places, and promptly at 8 p.m. the conductor raised his baton. Moments later one more corner of Asia was introduced to the strange and wondrous sounds of a live Western symphony orchestra. Occasion: a first concert in Saigon, Viet Nam, by Manhattan's touring Little Orchestra Society...
...crossed the line, Gordon threw the baton high into the stands. Ten steps later, he was mobbed by his teammates. In seconds he and coach Bill McCurdy were receiving a free ride to the dressing room to the accompaniment of "Harvardiana." It was a fitting ending to a great...
...stage were six nimble young men in dinner jackets, and strewed around them were more than a hundred percussion instruments-including a horse's jawbone, six water-buffalo bells, eight auto brake drums, a corrugated washboard and a set of bongo drums. When the conductor raised his baton, the young men moved on an assortment of weapons and started to flail away. The effect was like an explosion in a boiler factory. The occasion: an all-percussion concert at New York's Manhattan School of Music, under the direction of Veteran Percussionist Paul Price...
Signal Check. In Baton Rouge, La., Police Desk Sergeant M. K. Gunby answered a phone call from a lost tourist, who said: "I'm at the corner of Walk and Don't Walk...