Word: conductor
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...little trouble getting dates. Heaven knows why: she weighs in the low 200s, has a face as remorseless as a gulag commandant's and works as a corpse dresser in a Munich mortuary. Then one day she lays eyes on Eisi (Eisi Gulp), a dishy young subway conductor. Lust at first sight has rarely been so transforming. Marianne's stolid features crack into a swooning smile. Armed with subway schedules and candy bars and tarted up in a dress that must have come from Friedrich's of Heidelberg, she prowls the underground for her erotic prey. Will she find...
...thunder, even if the piece was Tchaikovsky's thunderous Piano Concerto No. 1. Horowitz was unable to speak English, but it was clear from the rehearsals that even a translator would be no help. "Beecham thought I was of no importance," the pianist remembers. At the concert, the conductor adopted an even more ponderous tempo than during the preparation. As the concerto progressed, Horowitz felt the audience slipping inexorably away, and it was clear that desperate action was called...
...influential, adamantly unflashy Italian maestro who never matched the glamour of contemporaries like Georg Solti but who was widely revered by fellow musicians; in Brescia, Italy. Sophisticated, subtle and averse to self-promotion, he was best known for nuanced interpretations of Verdi and Mozart and for ongoing stints as conductor for orchestras in Vienna, Chicago and Los Angeles...
Patrick W. Hosfield ’05, who was a conductor for one of the performances in Sanders Theatre on Saturday, said the event went well even if the rain did somewhat dampen the weekend...
...British icon. Sadly, after nearly a half-century of loyal service since they first hit the roads in 1956, these old-fashioned double deckers are being phased out in favor of newer models that are more accessible to the elderly and disabled and don't require a bus conductor to check tickets. By 2006, there won't be a single Routemaster left on the capital's roads...