Word: baton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sculptor's Hand. On the podium, Szell is formal and correct-his beat firm, his style understated. His baton moves stolidly. but his left hand-often called the most graceful in music-is a sculptor's hand, shaping and molding each sound, grasping the fortissimos, summoning the dominant voices and, for excited counterrhythms and violent colors, fluttering like a bird caught in a storm. "Between conductor and orchestra," Szell says, "a great deal must occur below the conscious level. There must be an understanding that is mystical and even occult. The freshness of the eyes, the mood-each...
...that was missing was a string ensemble whimpering Hearts and Flowers when onetime Trumpeter James Caesar Petrillo, 70, put down the baton as $26,000-a-year leader of the "100% organized" Chicago Local 10 of the American Federation of Musicians, a podium he had occupied for 40 stormy years. Near the end of his 45-minute farewell, the old union dragon who lost his job by a narrow 95 votes in a recent election glanced up at a portrait of himself on the wall, sniffed tentatively and dissolved into tears on the ever-ready shoulder of Toastmaster George Jessel...
...much as one groove until record companies popped with handsome royalties, which now bring millions a year to the A.F.M. He forced network stations to pay "live" musicians whether they were needed or not, proudly claims that he raised musicmen's income 200% while he held the baton...
...thinks De Gaulle would have made "a terrific orchestra conductor." And why have him leading musicians in his image? "The new Deputies," says TIM, "have no program except fidelity to De Gaulle. They struck me as resembling an orchestra which follows every movement of the conductor's baton-to the very tenth of a second. Formerly the National Assembly was a platform for soloists. There were first violins doing their act-all kinds of virtuosos performing. Now we have arrived at an age which has a real conductor and an ensemble following his baton." PULLING together the story...
Thanksgiving Parade (CBS and NBC, 10 a.m.-noon). A cornucopia of coast-to-coast celebrations with bands, baton twirlers, floats...