Word: clocked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...phone call and race to the caller's home while he is kept talking. Marilyn Monroe was addicted to making periodic phone calls asking for help from her analyst and friends. But the night she died, she did not call the S.P.C., where the telephone is manned the clock around, seven days a week...
Head of the BBC's music department, Pianist Clock wields an administrative baton over BBC's 13 orchestras (including four symphonies), employs a quarter of all the permanently employed musicians in Britain, spends more than $3,000,000 a year on music. In his small, square office at the BBC's music headquarters in London, Clock tirelessly studies scores and magnetic tapes as he tries to keep track of the 12,000 compositions played annually on the BBC's 3,000 serious music programs. Clock's own tastes lean to the modern, but a typical...
Middle-Aged Spread. In just three years on the job, Clock has transformed the BBC into one of Europe's most imposing boosters of avant-garde composers, influencing orchestras, ensembles and musical societies all over the country. "The BBC breaks the ice," says London Observer Critic Peter Heyworth. "Once it performs a work, the floodgates are open." Clock's appointment to the BBC, Heyworth decided, was "the most exciting musical event in Britain in years...
Anxious to rid itself of "middleaged spread," the BBC hired Clock in the spring of 1959. His credentials were varied. London-born, Clock studied piano with Artur Schnabel in Berlin in the early '303, returned to London to write music criticism, and founded a summer school (which he still runs) for composers and performers at Dartington, in Devon. Working on the theory that he could include two new works in a four-work program without losing his audience, Clock started his new job by sprucing up not only the Prom concerts but also the repertories of the three...
...Step Ahead. The results seem to support Clock's conviction that audiences are far less hidebound than most concert managers think. In his first two seasons of handling the Promenade Concerts, total attendance fell off−but now it is impressively high. Says Tastemaker Clock: "We give them what they'll like tomorrow. We are one step ahead. If you are always trying to please them you are one step behind...