Word: batons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...along as conductor her husband, Henry Lewis, whose contribution to the musical world may be generously dismissed as pathetic. Maestro Lewis knows a few tricks of the trade: he understands how to keep the beat, he can make the orchestra start and stop together, and he never lets the baton fall out of his hand...
Then in the mile relay, disaster struck when a dropped baton dropped the Crimson out of the points...
...Angeles-born Henry Lew is became the first Negro musician to play regularly with a major U.S. orchestra, joining the double-bass section of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. His real ambition, though, was to swap his bow for a baton. He got conducting experience in the military with the Seventh Army Symphony, and later organized the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. In 1961, he substituted for Igor Markevitch with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and within a few years he ranked as the outstanding Negro conductor in the U.S., though he had no orchestra...
...world première in Manhattan last week by the New York Philharmonic, has many qualities that have made Harris, at 70, an important American composer: logical structure, transparent textures and a broad melodic sense. Yet in the performance of the somewhat underrehearsed Philharmonic-under Harris' unpracticed baton-the mainspring that should have wound the work into a powerful coil of tension remained slack. Only the opening section of the 20-minute piece, with its urgent string passages set off against barking brass, was fully effective. In the second section, an elegiac fugue turned slowly on itself, then began...
Kirchner's tempi were often brisk and never slovenly. He used a baton when precision was called for, conducting only with his hands in the sections where he wanted more flexibility...