Word: baton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second half of the concert was conducted by Eliot Forbes. There is striking contrast between the two conductors. Yannatos is like a triode: his conducting style is reserved and his baton movements short, and the orchestra is used to giving big reactions to little movements. So when you see this little man (he must be barely five feet) controlling so much sound with so little movement, you get an impressive picture of power effortlessly exerted. Forbes, on the other hand, is very active and fun to watch. His face is so expressive that it is worthwhile sitting on the side...
...only Senator to suggest publicly that Long step down as whip has been Arizona's Carl Hayden. Long was not about to take the hint. In Baton Rouge last week, he threw down the gauntlet. "If they don't want me to do it," he said, "they'll have to fire...
...sober accounts we usually hear. As impressive as its rare humor was the orchestra's exuberant virtuosity. And Yannatos built some tremendous climaxes, including the finale, which steamed tersely through some sixty measures. This conductor always brings sound, clear logic to his music, fused with a novel, meticulous baton technique. The audience (and perhaps the Orchestra) should watch him more closely...
...international rank. The Moscow brass and woodwinds were bright and full-throated, but the strings sounded thin and oddly colorless. Though sometimes lacking in subtlety and balance, the orchestra played with great exuberance and a kind of healthy sentimentality. The tall, imposing Kondrashin, who does not use a baton, in the belief that the face can convey more than the arms, smiled and scowled like a silent-movie hero, occasionally punctuated climaxes with gestures as sudden and menacing as a karate chop. Compared with Russia's other two major orchestras, both of which have previously toured...
...Bell (Scotland), the Du Fonts from France and Yeast Tycoon Charles L. Fleischmann from Hungary. German-born Albert Einstein, Hungarian-born Edward Teller and Italian-born Enrico Fermi helped the U.S. to unlock the atom's secrets. There have been more immigrant musicians than one can shake a baton at, from Irving Berlin (Russia) and Victor Herbert (Ireland) to Artur Rubinstein (Poland) and Dimitri Mitropoulos (Greece...