Word: bruno
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...European tradition of Fritz Reiner or Bruno Walter, a pingpong postlude to a concerto would seem outrageous. Katims is a different breed of conductor who, like Lenny Bernstein, combines a showman's flair with an artist's discipline and knows that, despite the enormously increased U.S. appetite for culture, good programs must still be promoted. Says he: "No American conductor can expect simply to wrap himself in an opera cloak and make music...
...podium was 83-year-old Bruno Walter, who learned the works of Gustav Mahler from the composer himself. Standing beside him was a singer scarcely more than a third his age-Maureen Forrester, 29, the contralto whose big-time career was launched under Walter's baton. With the forces of the New York Philharmonic last week, Conductor Walter and Contralto Forrester gave Carnegie Hall audiences an unforgettable performance of one of Mahler's greatest works, Das Lied von der Erde, whose premiere Walter conducted in Munich half a century...
Prince & Pugilist. Drawn by the deep, the elite free divers range from Lord Louis Mountbatten and his royal nephew Prince Philip to Heavyweight Champion Ingemar Johansson, from Russian Nuclear Physicist Bruno Pontecorvo to Gary Cooper and U.S. Rocketeer Wernher von Braun...
...Venice, a gondolier named Bruno is as happy as the New York cabbie; Schweitzer owns his gondola. A Manhattan barber was full of apologies one evening a year ago when his bald client asked to have his fringe trimmed at 6 p.m. The union would not allow the barber to stay that late. Schweitzer now owns the barbershop in the Chrysler Building, where the barber ("He's also my psychiatrist, the only man I tell my troubles to") is now a full operating partner, hence free from union regulations...
Haunted by Ghosts. For all his unpopularity, Mahler also had powerful admirers-Bruno Walter, Richard Strauss, and particularly Arnold Schoenberg, who called him a "saint" and confounded Mahler vith his own early experiments in atonalism ("I don't understand his music," said Mahler. "I am old, and I daresay my ear is not sensitive enough...