Word: batons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fitting that the Saengerfest should be directed by Bruno Walter, music master of present-day Teutons. His baton had many times hushed audiences of the Staatsoper, once the Royal Opera of Berlin. Even at 17, he had directed the opera at Cologne. Munich, Vienna, Riga had acclaimed him. Later, when anti-Semitic feeling grew bitter in Europe, he sailed for the U. S. Some say he is first in the hearts of German-Americans...
Florence's chic ankles twinkled toward him. Her figure is svelte, lithe-though she does not dance-her voice sultry, a blues voice. At a curt nod from her the huge, perspiring black who is Miss Jones' husband snapped his hot-time jazz baton. Prince Henry hesitated, then rose, followed Florence out on the floor and black-bottomed...
...faster tempo. Suddenly the audience gasped, the musicians faltered. The brawny arms of Basso Chaliapin were beating out an aerial quick-step at the orchestra in the middle of a duet. Before the nervous and fascinated audience, Conductor Alwin brought the orchestra to order with a sweep of his baton, held it to his chosen tempo for the rest of the opera. Sequel: A riled audience reserved applause for minor singers. An indignant press flayed the impertinence of the rebellious foreigner, Feodor Chaliapin. An exhausted conductor said that for Basso Chaliapin, he would conduct no more...
...avers, seven years of honest toil and study were required before he mastered the art of swinging the drum major's baton then Mr. Olson is justified in demanding eight for the greater complexities of the saxaphone and the other apparatus which compose modern music. But just where in this welter of the arts is there room for what is quaintly termed a liberal education? Neither Mr. Olson nor Mr. Whiteman would tolerate illiterate and uninformed artists in his troupe. And if eight years are necessary for the technical perfection desired in a jazz band, then at least...
...more than a dilatory attention. There is the foundation to be laid--apparently eight long years--and then there is the super-structure which makes the building so attractive. The completed product is the triumph of instinct over intelligence. But a twelve year course, even with a maestra's baton in view, is rather long and arduous. Aborigines accomplished similar ends with much less difficulty...