Word: baton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...several variations on the same theme, and was forced to resign from Paris' Lamoureux Orchestra a year ago. Last week, in Tel Aviv, where he appeared as guest conductor of the Israel Philharmonic, he sounded off at the drop of a question. This time he casually blasted his baton-wielding colleagues...
...which take turns giving concerts to sellout crowds. The present touring orchestra is regarded not only as the better of the two, but as the best orchestra in the country. The status is understandable because Mravinsky, the Soviet Union's best conductor, has had the Leningrad under his baton since 1938. The rehearsal facilities he has available to him would make any Western conductor envious: for a new or particularly difficult work there is absolutely no restriction on rehearsal time. But unlike some conductors, Mravinsky does not exhort his men to superhuman efforts. His theory is that...
...Henry Swoboda, the new conductor of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, greets you, he shoots out his baton hand with disarming speed. The gesture lacks the pointless effusiveness one so often encounters. Swoboda is disarming in other ways as well. After launching into a musical idea with open feeling, he immediately backtracks by demanding "Do you see what I mean...
California-born Wes Gallagher attended the University of San Francisco and Louisiana State University, joined the A.P.'s Buffalo bureau in 1937 after a reporting stint on the Baton Rouge Morning Advocate and State Times (where he covered the assassination of Huey P. Long). Sent to Europe in 1940, he arrived in Copenhagen just in time to witness the Nazi invasion of Denmark. As a war correspondent, he covered the Allied invasion of North Africa in 1942, also served in Greece, the Balkans and Austria. He was recalled to A.P.'s New York headquarters...
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