Word: clydes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Back in the 1950s, when Clyde J. Key was a high school student in Fort Towson, Okla., most of the kids looked up to musicians like Elvis Presley, Fats Domino and Bill Haley. Not Clyde. His idol was Conductor Arturo Toscanini. In 1957, when Toscanini died at the age of 89, Clyde had a dream in which he came upon the old man's weeping, grief-stricken ghost in a desert...
...unhappy, Maestro?" asked Clyde...
...worry, Maestro," said Clyde, reassuringly, placing his hand gently on Toscanini's shoulder. "I won't let that happen...
...Clyde Key is doing his best to keep that promise. For years he has scoured the U.S. and Europe for off-the-air transcriptions of Toscanini broadcasts. Key now owns 5,000 transcriptions (all transferred to tape) of hitherto commercially unreleased material-a complete catalogue of broadcasts by the Maestro between 1933 and 1954. It also includes about 50 concerts that were never broadcast, but which were recorded surreptitiously by engineers supposedly testing their equipment. Last year Key launched the Arturo Toscanini Society. A private, nonprofit club based in Dumas, Texas, it offers members (about 500 so far) five...
...full page in McCall's rather than a Playboy foldout. And the expatriate stance has vanished. "America is where I belong," she says, after a six-year sojourn in France. "This is where it has to happen." The girl who turned down the leading role in Bonnie and Clyde and Rosemary's Baby is not about to let a plum go by her again. "I'll take on anything," she states, "even a musical." Peter, whose volatility could make Librium jittery, has turned out to have, his father says, "one of the great marriages of all time." When he talks...