Word: conductor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Susan McDougal finally gets something to take her mind off of Ken Starr when she enters a California courtroom for the opening of her trial over charges she embezzled $150,000 from conductor Zubin Mehta...
...more judges and juries of the same -- or at least convince them of the deterioration of her spinal condition that persuaded Judge Howard to free her on compassionate grounds. The former Clinton Whitewater associate goes to trial in California next month on charges she embezzled $150,000 from the conductor Zubin Mehta when she worked as his bookkeeper from 1989 to 1992. And when she gets through that, there's a second contempt citation from Starr in September for her continued refusal to cooperate with his investigation. McDougal served 18 months for her earlier refusal to cooperate with Starr...
Carmen is a tattooed nightclub singer in a Tina Turner wig who smuggles Uzis after hours. Escamillo, her bullfighting boyfriend, looks as if he's been getting fashion tips from Wayne Newton's tailor. The orchestra is seated onstage, midway between five video screens and six hydraulic lifts; the conductor wears a leather vest, and the director's credits include a stint as Mick Jagger's choreographer. And everybody is miked, from the tenor to the timpani player...
...Stravinsky befriended Robert Craft, a 23-year-old conductor who was to become his chronicler, interpreter and, oddly, his mentor in some ways. It was Craft who persuaded Stravinsky to take a more sympathetic view of Arnold Schoenberg's 12-tone school, which led to Stravinsky's last great stylistic development...
...band in the early '40s, he kept on tap a voice teacher who was a former opera singer. Later on he would turn to Metropolitan Opera soprano Dorothy Kirsten and baritone Robert Merrill for pointers on technique. "He knew they knew...how to maintain the equipment," Sinatra's longtime conductor, Vincent Falcone, told writer Will Friedwald. That stuff in the whiskey tumbler he used onstage was often tea. Booze, he knew, could batter the throat...