Word: baton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stripped down for action and conducted a seashore luau on the island of Maui. Clad only in a slit-to-hip malo and a rakish palm hat, Bernstein entertained his entire New York Philharmonic Orchestra, which was flown over to Maui after two concerts under Bernstein's baton in Honolulu. During the day the mellowing boy wonder of music went waterskiing, stuffed himself with poi and other Hawaiian goodies, planted a coconut tree and got a raft of gifts, including a pass exempting him from being jugged for any Maui traffic violations...
...Baton Rouge...
...Schneider ran through a set of Beethoven sonatas with Artistic Director Serkin's twelve-year-old son, Peter, at the piano. And in the pine-paneled concert hall, Pablo Casals, 83, conducted a chamber orchestra in Mozart's G-Minor Symphony, using a yellow pencil as a baton, spurring on his men and himself with cries of "Oh, very well, very well! So beautiful...
...Strikes Is Out. In Baton Rouge, La., the state senate passed a bill making it a crime to have more than one illegitimate child...
...anybody who would listen to him-or even play with him. Born 30 years ago in Fort Worth, Texas, the son of a sometime baseball player and singer, he taught himself how to play the sax when he was 14, went on the road with smalltime bands. Once in Baton Rouge, a crowd so detested his playing that they smashed his sax, and Bandleader Pee Wee Crayton hired him and then wound up paying him not to play. Now enjoying his first real success, Coleman remains confused by the storm his music has created. Says he: "I just play what...