Word: baton
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LaMont J. Barlow ’05, the assistant conductor presiding over the first piece of the night, came in a second later, tapping his baton on the music stand in front of him and launching the orchestra into Bernstein’s playful “Overture to ‘Candide?...
...said once as the Orchestra finished a take of the Blauvelt. “I know it’s very seductive music, and you all want to schmaltz it, but you can’t.” Several times, Yannatos would stop the orchestra by tapping his baton on the music stand and shout the name of an offending instrument (“Bassoon!”) before continuing...
...fries the big stadium at Southern University in Baton Rouge, La. The track meet drowses through the sweet tedium of late afternoon. An athlete plods across the infield with a long bag of vaulting poles on his shoulder. Two tall, leggy blond women run side by side with springing, matched strides. A crew with a truck begins to set up hurdles...
...Sports Festival for U.S. athletes in every non-Olympic year. The advantages are that the fellow who puts the pigeons in crates and releases them at the opening ceremonies gets to stay in practice, and that the athletes and the rest of us remain attentive. There were absentees at Baton Rouge among the top U.S. competitors, and crowds were lighter than festival boosters had expected. But among those who came to this circus of 30-odd summer sports and three winter skating events, the mood seemed light and untroubled. For athletes the meet was important but not career-breaking...
...diving veterans came in force, but the swimmers at Baton Rouge were unfamiliar faces, for now. A big, knobby 16-year-old named Jeffrey Olsen, from Austin, won four individual races and anchored a winning relay team, and well before he was through he was a TV fixture, peering at the world through water-splotched glasses and grinning a big, happy grin. Molly Magill, 14, became another instant darling, winning the 1,500 freestyle and sharing in the 800 freestyle relay victory as her coach lumbered along the poolside yelling encouragement...