Word: batons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...broad-faced, close-cropped, 26-year-old Harlem musician named Dean Dixon was well on his way last week to doing what no Negro has ever done-conduct a first-rank symphony orchestra. Musician Dixon had already waved a crisp, confident baton over the New York City Symphony (see above), the National Youth Administration radio orchestra, and an amateur symphony of his own in Harlem. At a Town Hall recital, Conductor Dixon made more news. He directed a 38-piece white outfit which he had founded-the New York Chamber Orchestra-in concertos with a debutante pianist, Vivian Rivkin...
Jesse Ehlich '46 of Winthrop House and New York City has received notice from the All-American Youth Orchestra that he has been selected from 3,000 competing artists to play the cello under baton of Leopold Stokowski this summer...
...Houston refinery; a new $10,760,000 toluol plant was also under construction at Baytown, Tex. by Humble Oil. Another defense-born baby of the oil industry was synthetic rubber: Standard Oil Co. of Louisiana had a $1,000,000 buna plant under construction at Baton Rouge, and Hydrocarbon Chemical & Rubber Co. will complete a butadiene plant at Borger, Tex. next month...
...stuff to sophisticated opera fans, but Montemezzi's surging, glowing score is as Italian as ravioli, and one of the best of its kind since Verdi. Last week Composer Montemezzi made L'Amore del Tre Re an event by dishing it up, with his own baton, at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera...
Mitropoulos wowed his first Manhattan audience by performing, from memory and without baton, a tough and little-played work, Richard Strauss's Sinfonia Domestica - 45 minutes of sound representing a particularly lurid day in the Strauss family. Mitropoulos wowed his orchestra too, although some of them resented having to work hard for a change...