Word: clevelandism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...stool so low that he could touch the keyboard with his nose. Before a performance of the Brahms D minor piano concerto, Conductor Leonard Bernstein turned to the audience and made a short speech, dissociating himself from his soloist's unorthodox view of the piece. At his Cleveland Orchestra debut in 1957, he tangled with the irascible maestro George Szell over his use of the soft pedal in a Beethoven concerto; Szell never performed with him after that, but saluted: "That nut's a genius...
...Cleveland, Oct. 20,1944. A liquefied-natural-gas tank belonging to the East Ohio Gas Co. developed a structural weakness that led to a huge explosion. The blast and fire killed...
...Cleveland 27, Houston...
...first Muzak recording in 1934 was a medley of Whispering, Do You Ever Think of Me? and Here in My Arms, performed by Sam Lanin's orchestra. The first customers were householders in the Lakeland section of Cleveland, who were offered, for $1.50 a month, three channels ranging from dance music to news. As a novelty, Muzak might well have gone the way of Sam Lanin's orchestra. But a series of experiments started in the late 1930s provided Muzak with the secret that converted base music into gold...
Boston 122, Cleveland...