Word: baton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...June evening 51 years ago, a scared young man named Ralph Waldo Emerson Jones stepped off the train at Grumbling, a tiny community in the pine woods of northern Louisiana. At 19, newly graduated from Southern University near Baton Rouge, he faced a formidable mission: to teach biology, chemistry and physics, shape up a football team, strike up a band, act as registrar, and help cut firewood at Grambling's 25-year-old school for black teachers...
...vertiginous sight on the podium. He will perch precariously on his toes when all hands are playing furiously, or do a deep knee bend during tender moments. In his lexicon of body English, an avian flap of the elbow is as meaningful as a sword thrust of the baton. The fluid gestures may be idiosyncratic, but they rarely fail to communicate. Says Tennstedt: "The musician must have the feeling that what the conductor wants is absolutely right. The musician must want it too. It's a matter of gaming his confidence." Tennstedt is going to be engendering...
...like Harvard's involvement with the Defense Department or its alleged connections to the Central Intelligence Agency or the University's ownership of stock in Gulf Oil pale in most student minds when compared to problems like floaters or overcrowding in the Houses. Yet, the CRR, much like the baton in a relay race, is an issue that students have passed on to freshman class after freshman class since 1971, and it is only now that it appears that the pass is about to be fumbled...
...those who object in principle to the CRR and who seek its abolition, the end of the boycott would be a perhaps irreparable defeat. Until the CRR issue is resolved this year, however, its opponents should rest assured that the baton has been passed, however weakly...
...that wall to lean my back on," the Berlin Philharmonic. Such is the trust between Karajan and his musicians that he often conducts with his eyes closed. "I can feel the players better," he says. He gives few entry cues and the vaguest of cutoff gestures. Explains Karajan: "Baton technique is what the people see, but it is all nonsense. The hands do their job because they have learned what to do. In the performance I forget about them. The molding comes when the orchestra and conductor come together in a sort of union. Things happen that are too delicate...