Word: cecilia
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...greatly his guts and nerve, which some of the Philharmonic musicians called hutzpa. This, for instance, he displayed when conducting (probably for the first time in his life) Puccini's La Boheme at La Scala and Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with the orchestra and chorus of Santa Cecilia in Rome. I did not make any remarks about Bernstein's hip movements while conducting Beethoven's Ninth...
Last summer Cecilia H. Payne-Gaposchkin became the first woman in the history of the University to attain the rank of full professor through regular faculty promotion. In September she assumed the duties of chairman of the Department of Astronomy...
...onetime mentor, Conductor Artur Rodzinski, with an expressive Jewish word that means cheek, nerve, monumental gall. "He has hutzpa," says Rodzinski, and illustrates what he means with the story of how Bernstein, a mere 35, dared to conduct Beethoven's sacrosanct Ninth Symphony with the great Santa Cecilia chorus in Rome. "And he had the nerve to move his hips in time to the music. Hutzpa...
...Cecilia Payne-Gaposhkin, chairman of the Department of Astronomy, said yesterday that the exact nature of his work here has not yet been decided, but that he will probably teach a course next semester relating to some aspect of his recent research...
Tonight's concert will include Ode on St. Cecilia's Day and Organ Concerto, Opus 7, Number 2, by Handel; Magnificat, by John C. Crawford 2G, and Gloria from "Mass of the Holy Spirit" by Randall Thompson, Walter W. Noumberg Professor of Music...