Word: batons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dimitri Mitropoulos, the Philharmonic's permanent conductor, took command for the second performance. Britons watched him with amazement. In characteristic Mitropoulos style, he used no baton, conducted with elbows, fists, hunched shoulders and lean-faced grimaces. After the first half of the program (Beethoven's Coriolanus overture and Symphony No. 4), Britons exchanged dismayed reactions in the lobby: "What an extraordinary way to conduct! Did you see the way he jigged during the vivace...
...Perfect Gem. In 1949, tired and grey, Koussy turned his baton over to Charles Munch. In 25 years, he had brought to U.S. ears more contemporary music than anyone else in history. His Koussevitzky Music Foundation had commissioned works from such giants as Bartok and Britten. His dream was realized...
...Harvard University Band, under the baton of Malcolm Holmes '28, will play at the celebration of the 75th anniversary of the National League. The affair will take place on June 2, and will surround a ball game between the Braves and the Chicago Cubs at the Commonwealth Avenue Teepee...
Died. Charles Keck, 75, onetime assistant to Sculptor Augustus St. Gaudens, and heir to his heroic style; of a heart ailment; in Carmel, N.Y. Among his best-known statues: Father Duffy, a Times Square fixture; Lewis & Clark, in Charlottesville, Va.; Huey Long, in Baton Rouge, La.; Andrew Jackson, in Kansas City, commissioned by Jackson County's Presiding Judge Harry S. Truman...
Dartmouth's strong mile relay squad fumbled its chance to beat the Crimson team of Berman, Tom McGrath, John Packard, and Grutzner by inept passing of the baton. The Crimson's time of 3:21.4 was a meet record. In the 880 Bill Montague of the Crimson came in behind Sam Daniell of the Indians despite Dave Cairns' first-lap effort to set too fast a pace for Daniell...