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...point in The Music Man at Broadway's Majestic Theater, the melody of Till There Was You climbs and blazes in a crescendo of awakening love between Bert Parks and his shy sweetheart. The baton in the orchestra pit below is not wielded by the usual bald male conductor, but by a very pretty young lady who might have just defected from the chorus onstage. With striking Titian-red hair, plus face and figure to match, Liza Redfield has the looks for anything except what she is: Broadway's first fulltime woman conductor...
...Symphony and other orchestras; in a less memorable tradition there have always been all-girl dance bands. But conducting Broadway musicals has always been a man's job. Producers argue that women cannot command a male theater orchestra in day-in, day-out performances. Besides, if the girl conductor is good-looking, who wants to watch the show? Liza Redfield finally broke the monopoly by insisting that "music is neither masculine nor feminine. You don't have to be one of the boys to be a good conductor." For four years, she rapped steadily at Broadway...
...Hawaii, the urge to go native overcame Conductor Leonard Bernstein on his 42nd birthday, so he stripped down for action and conducted a seashore luau on the island of Maui. Clad only in a slit-to-hip malo and a rakish palm hat, Bernstein entertained his entire New York Philharmonic Orchestra, which was flown over to Maui after two concerts under Bernstein's baton in Honolulu. During the day the mellowing boy wonder of music went waterskiing, stuffed himself with poi and other Hawaiian goodies, planted a coconut tree and got a raft of gifts, including a pass exempting...
...White House: Harry Truman didn't like Hume's musical judgment on Daughter Margaret's singing. That might have taught any other critic that music and politics don't mix. But after all, Washington is a political town. Lately, on his radio program called Guest Conductor, Critic Hume has been airing the favorite melodies of the 1960 candidates. By last week he had all four on record...
...JACK KENNEDY, a faithful Guest Conductor listener (whose father Joe, the family's No.11 music buff, listens to Beethoven records by the hour), detailed his choice in a long letter written by Wife Jackie: Debussy's Afternoon of a Faun, Ravel's La Valse, Berlioz' overture to Benvenuto Cellini, Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, and dances from Borodin's Prince Igor...