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...middle road that pleased audiences everywhere-on million-seller records (Whispering), radio, TV, nightclubs and the concert stage. He took chances on new music (Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue) and new musicians (Tommy Dorsey, Jack Teagarden), but his staple was rich, smooth orchestration that kept his foot-long baton in motion until 1961, when he retired to his Bucks County home, Coda, so named for the last few bars on a musical score...
Again, as the Huskie cheerleaders, baton twirler, and band outyelled the skimpy Harvard IAB contingent, the two squads traded points, for several minutes...
...taxi driver knows the latest back stage gossip from the opera house. The maid hums Schubert lieder while brewing coffee. The shopkeeper can debate the baton technique of leading conductors. Throughout Austria, everybody seems to be caught up in music, whether as a cultural pursuit, political issue, spectator sport, historical tradition or simple daily pleasure. Other countries may name their streets after composers, but Austria must be the only place where a crack train is called the Mozart Express, and where the national airline has planes called Beethoven, Schubert and Bruckner. Even affairs of state become insignificant next...
Last week Takemitsu's latest piece, which had been commissioned by the New York Philharmonic, received its world premiere in Manhattan under the assured baton of Seiji Ozawa. Confirming Ozawa's observation that Takemitsu "paints in watercolors," November Steps created a 23-minute mood of hushed mystery that was almost visual in its stunning impact. The strings whirred and chattered, spinning out a web of shimmering sonority into which the winds and brass poked tiny pin points, like stars among scudding clouds. Through it all one black-and-grey-robed soloist warbled the mournful, breathy tones...
Like moneylenders in the temple or hippies at the Pentagon, a baton twirler in the band is a total mind-loop. But whatever your reality, Donald W. Tuckwiller Jr. '70 is doing the Mr. America thing at Harvard...