Word: batons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Most-talked-of conductor in Berlin was dark, handsome, poised, 30-year-old Herbert von Karajan. He waves the baton at the State Opera, is rated only a notch below deaconlike Conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler of the Berlin Philharmonic...
...Harvard band of 116 pieces will take the field in the Yale bowl tomorrow led by baton-twirling Stuart H. Cowen '42. Coming on the gridiron the band will play "The Harvard Graduate School March," a new song by the band's conductor James W. Bolt, Jr. 3Dn. Between halves, besides going through several intricate formations, the group will entertain the crowd with "Harvard, Good Night," "Wintergreen," "Our Director," and "Fair Harvard...
...Captain McCrosson, in full Zouave uniform, was noted for spinning a bayoneted rifle like a drum major's baton, finally whirling it, bayonet down, on his outstretched palm...
...peaceful Chicago Symphony has never been notable for its interest in contemporary music. For 36 years it has played sober classics under the benign baton of white-haired Frederick Stock. But this season, to celebrate its 50th anniversary, the Chicago Symphony arranged something special. It commissioned a composition from each of ten famous living composers, announced a bill of world premieres that might have turned Boston's Serge Koussevitzky green with envy...
Pink-cheeked, bushy-browed Maestro Walter Damrosch, 78, built a baton-swinging cardboard effigy of Wendell Willkie at his Manhattan house, summoned musicians to see it. Putting politics before mythology, he crowed: "We are going to elect Willkie the conductor of 130,000,000 people for four years. ... He is playing the music from Wagner's opera Siegfried, in which Siegfried comes to awaken Brünnehilde, who has been asleep for eight years...