Word: batons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bare-kneed, clean-scrubbed nine-year-old Michael Spivak stepped to the podium of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Dignified Sir Ernest MacMillan, the Toronto's conductor, gravely stepped down, handed Michael his birch baton. Michael handed him an ocarina in exchange...
...lank, bald-headed man in white tie and tails, who bore a slight resemblance to U.S. Senator Robert Taft, mounted the podium and stood with bowed head, facing the Moscow State Philharmonic. He seemed to be counting off the rumbles of artillery. At the 20th, he raised his baton and began the world's premiere of his newest symphony. The bald-headed conductor was Russia's great est living musician, Sergei Prokofiev...
THOMAS A. KIRBY Department of English Louisiana State University Baton Rouge...
...continuous entertainment policy is upheld by an alternate group under the baton of Sherman Freeman, also a tenor-man and Newton alumnus. Upon all too rare occasions a gal named Shirley Mhore sits in on vocals and makes you forget all about people named Lena Horne or Billie Holliday. The grapevine has it that in a few weeks Shirley will go on the payroll. That would really be a break for jazz in Boston...
Debussy: Two Nocturnes (Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conducting; Columbia, 4 sides). The serene Nuages and luminous Fêtes tricked up with a lot of baton hokum. Performance and recording: fair...