Word: conduction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year later, back home in Brooklyn, they heard that Conductor Zipper was in the U.S. on a cultural mission for the Philippines. They buttonholed him with a proposition: if they could form a Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra, would he stay and conduct it? Said 45-year-old Herbert Zipper: "They were so earnest . . . besides, it was a creative challenge." He stayed...
...angry escort as he drove first to the Ministry of State, then to Marti's statue, where he planted a wreath of yellow dahlias (cost: $50, paid by the Navy) and read an apology in English: "[I wish to express my very profound regret at the unfortunate conduct of several sailors of the U.S. Navy." "Out!" snarled the students as the ambassador's car rolled away. Presently the wreath was torn to bits...
This week in Constitution Hall, Hans Kindler will conduct his farewell concert. When it is over, he will be off to Scandinavia, "teeming with ideas, as usual," he said. As far as he was concerned, the fate of Washington's orchestra was "in the lap of the gods...
...instructor back in Sioux City, Iowa. Six months later, he had won a statewide cello contest. After scholarships at Baltimore's Peabody Conservatory and at Curtis, he settled down to buzz and bow under Kindler. Two years ago, when Kindler was ill, Mitchell got his first chance to conduct the National Symphony, made an able understudy's success. His appointment made Washington's the eighth major orchestra in the U.S. (among 25 with budgets of $100,000 or more) with an American-born musician in the conductor's post...
...move outdoors as soon as the temperature hits 45 or 50," McInnis said yesterday. "But you know this New England weather--it may snow tomorrow." Until the mercury does climb, McInnis must conduct his daily two-hour workouts in the hazy confines of the Cage...