Word: conductors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Striding onstage, shoulders hunched forward, elbows flapping at the side, Prince Charles hair sliding forward over one eye, Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas looks like a big bird impersonating an adolescent. Mounting the podium, this shambling creature bows low-to the audience, to the orchestra-then, in some sort of mystical transformation, comes up a man. With a snap, the backbone locks firmly into place. The right hand is suddenly holding the baton high over the head. Slowly, powerfully, the left hand rises like a warning semaphore. Quickly, precisely, the right hand gives the downbeat...
...paste potshots began when Mexican Social Psychologist Jose de Jesus Fonseca noticed an American magazine advertisement that he felt insulted the Mexican revolutionary hero Emiliano Zapata. Over a faded photograph of Zapata, the ad recounted a story of how he threatened to execute any railroad conductor or engineer who thought to keep Zapata's guerrillas from stealing his regulation Elgin watch by wearing a cheaper variety on his wrist. "It's a good thing Zapata's gone," the ad concluded. "He'd be stealing Elgins as fast as we could make them." For $1, a reader...
Divorced. By Andre Previn, 41, principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, Broadway (Coco) composer, and father of Mia Farrow's twin sons: Dory Previn, 44, lyricist who recently recorded Beware of Young Girls in lament of Andre's departure: after ten years of marriage, no children; in Los Angeles. Previn and Mia are presently in the wilds of Scotland, where, he says, they will be married, presumably as soon as he has signed the divorce papers and returned them to Los Angeles...
Imaginary Piano. Most conductors stand up while they work. Fleisher sat on a tall rehearsal stool. This was because, after sitting down professionally for most of his life, he admits laughingly that "I don't know what to do with my behind." More important, Fleisher feels that he can establish contact with his players better if he is able to be "among them, rather than above." Most conductors give the beat with the right hand and use the left for expression. Not Fleisher. He sometimes swung both arms up, fists closed. He often seemed to be playing an imaginary...
...incomprehensible that Les Troyens had to wait 112 years to be heard as Berlioz had written it. If it were not for the superlative skill and dogged determination of Conductor Colin Davis it might not have happened at all. For over a century, the French publishing house of Choudens owned the score but refused to release it. At one point, English Musicologists Cecil Gray and W.J. Turner even tried to hire the Parisian underworld to burglarize Choudens. The attempt failed. Fortunately, the Bibliotheque Nationale owned Berlioz's manuscripts. British Musicologist Hugh MacDonald began the immense job of deciphering them...