Word: diego
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Voice of the Turtle. In San Diego, a want ad appeared in the Union-Tribune: "Handsome, cultured, virile ex-officer, 31, seeks attractive lady who will appreciate same until September...
Those aren't the contours of a Navy man, mused the water-taxi pilot suspiciously, regarding one of his fares by dawn's dim light. Nevertheless, he said nothing as his passengers debarked at Buoy 25 in San Diego Bay, where the crews of three destroyers were beginning to stir. But back on the beach he confided his suspicions to the shore patrol...
...patrons of the San Diego Symphony could hardly believe their eyes: 4,000 of their fellow townsmen streamed into Balboa Park's Ford Bowl for the city's largest symphonic turnout in many a season. Then they could hardly believe their ears: the San Diego Symphony played its way through a difficult program of concertos with Pianist Rudolf Serkin, and played beautifully. Critics, customers and Pianist Serkin all agreed: the orchestra had come of age. So had the conductor; at 39, Robert Shaw had made the difficult transition from a brilliant leader of voices to a topnotch director...
...symphony in San Diego was in the doldrums, and hating it, and Conductor Shaw was riding the high tide of success, and hating it too. Restless, volatile Bob Shaw felt that he had come as far as he could with Manhattan's famed amateur Collegiate Chorale, the Robert Shaw Chorale and the smaller voice groups that ballooned him from a $35-a-week arranger for Fred Waring to a creative, sensitive stylist who could make some $75,000 a year. Shaw was looking for an orchestra to work and learn with. When San Diego issued the call, he lost...
Shaw is able and willing to pay for his experiment, is plowing back all his salary and some $3,000 more into the orchestra to get the talent and programming that he wants. But how long Conductor Shaw's San Diego phase will last nobody knows; this nervous man in a hurry is allergic to stagnation. Says Shaw: "The ages 45 to 65 are a man's most productive years, and I'm just ten months short of 40-so I haven't any time to lose...