Word: baton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lili, A Solemn Music by Disciple Virgil Thomson, and the Requiem Mass of Gabriel Faure with an authority that convinced the New York Times that "she could hold up her end of the baton with most of her male colleagues." Tactfully shrugging off this bit of male chauvinism, Mme. Boulanger refrained from repeating her response to a similar comment when she led the Boston Symphony in 1938: "I have been a woman for a little over 50 years and have gotten over my initial astonishment...
...Szell. "an instrument perfectly suited to express my artistic intentions." Szell's instrument is the 104-member Cleveland Orchestra, which he designed as a kind of hybrid-a cross-breeding of American precision and cleanliness of tone with European warmth and temperament. Satisfied that he has under his baton "personnel as good as any conductor could wish for." Szell has long since satisfied his artistic intention. When he brought his great orchestra to Manhattan's Carnegie Hall last week, it put on the kind of performance demanded by a conductor who wants his players to "see music from...
...dropped baton cost the varsity the mile relay, but by then everyone's mind was on the last race of the evening. The Crimson was going to challenge Holy Cross' 7:35 two-mile unit...
With this modest preamble, the dark-eyed darling of American cinema's avant-garde confidently picked up the directorial baton-and fell flat on his face. Too Late Blues is a routine, B-flat movie musical in which Cassavetes can seriously claim success in only one respect: the picture will not make money. To begin with, it constitutes a tired tract for the hysterical cult of hip that preaches salvation through syncopation. The plot, moreover, is a canned arrangement played to death in a dozen previous pictures of this sort: progressive jazzbo (Bobby Darin) goes commercial; loses art, loses...
Weary from Washington rehearsals of his opera Oedipus Rex, Stravinsky excused himself at 11 p.m. In an evening devoted to music, no one had performed, so the First Lady pointed her baton to a pianist-gone-wrong, Presidential Press Secretary Pierre Salinger. Salinger, who at one time was considered a sort of musical prodigy, obligingly sat at the piano, ripped off a composition he had written himself...