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...Electrical & Musical Industries Ltd., which successfully launched Angel Records in the U.S.). In order to keep the orchestra intact, Legge not only booked concerts whenever possible, but accepted such esoteric assignments as film sound tracks and recording the works of Russian Composer Nicholas Medtner (1880-1951) for a wealthy enthusiast, the Maharajah of Mysore...
...matter of days. In Bangkok, with a temperature of 105° onstage and no fans, U.S. Ambassador John Peurifoy came backstage to insist that the men take off their white jackets. After that they often played in shirtsleeves, delicately abandoning suspenders in favor of belts. In Manila an enthusiast presented them with sport shirts decorated with pictures of Maestro Arturo Toscanini, who trained the orchestra (as the NBC Symphony), and left in the spring...
...Philippines were still unknown quantities, but eight other Japanese cities were already showing signs of matching Tokyo's enthusiasm. As one Tokyo critic explained it: "My eyes were blurred with tears of my deep feeling. We have been waiting these many years just for this night." Said another enthusiast: "I feel as if I had eaten a big beefsteak of music...
...over-enthusiast here apparently stepping sideways from his shell into the water is actually pushing his shell away from the dock. He continued to push until clear and, still dry, rowed gleefully up and down the Charles, cautiously avoiding Blake Dennison, singles coach, the crew, construction debris, and other over-enthusiasts who were also rowing happily about in the mocha waters...
...pursuit of this ideal, the hi-fi enthusiast still hovers anxiously over his treble and bass controls, giving rise to the story about the audiophile who went to hear a live concert under Leopold Stokowski and left the hall holding his ears and muttering: "Too much bass! Too much bass!" "High-fidelity sound," says one expert, "is like the term love. It means whatever you choose it to mean." Hi-fi is, in fact, an attitude-a kind of passion to reproduce music exactly as it sounded in its natural setting, e.g., a symphony orchestra in a full concert hall...