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...both rehearsals and the two-part broadcasts of Ballo last week and this week, the maestro unobtrusively slipped on his spectacles just before he administered the downbeat. But although his figure was bent with age, it still bent flexibly with the music. His left hand, which he sometimes used to hold the podium rail, stiffly waved, patted and sliced the air while the world's most expressive baton all but drew pictures of the sounds he wanted. The orchestra played its heart out, and the soloists and chorus outdid themselves, actually made the old war horse sound like...
This week Conductor Stokowski got his chance when he gave the downbeat...
Symphony Sid, disk jockey, Nat Hentoff, writer for "Downbeat," and George Wein, owner of Storyville and Mahogany Hall, led a forum of the newly-formed Jazz Society in Burr A last night...
Taking part in a discussion of jazz, said Wilson, will be George Wein, proprietor of Storyville and Mahogany Hall, Boston jazz emporiums; Nat Hentoff, disk jockey on station WMEX, and writer for "Metronome" and "Downbeat," prominent jazz periodicals; and "Symphony Sid," disk jockey on station WCOP, and one of the formost proponents of modern jazz music...
...want-to-be-lost generation. She is engaged to a handsome home-town boy (Rivermark, La.) who sells insurance and is as safe and sane as the Fourth of July without firecrackers. When he introduces her to a poetry-quoting New Orleans gambler, Randy Blane, Rowdy feels the "dark downbeat witchery" of the man melting her engagement ring...