Word: hobnobbing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...presence of twelve big-name athletes sent Rotonda citizenry into autograph apoplexy, and an unofficial school holiday allowed swarms of children to join the athlete hunt. Commercial sponsors flew in a small army of star-struck clients and customers to hobnob with the captive athletes at a poolside cocktail party. With the arrival of Howard Cosell, the stage was finally fully populated for a genuine pseudo event...
Born in England, raised in Seattle, Lieberson settled in New York to write music, hobnob with composers like Ives and Henry Cowell and write irreverent music criticism for the now defunct magazine Modern Music. After signing on with Columbia Masterworks in 1939 as second in command, he made one of his first projects the first recording of Pierrot Lunaire with the composer Arnold Schoenberg conducting. It was something that only an ex-composer would have fought for. The album bombed financially on 78 r.p.m., but finally made back the investment when transferred to LP a decade later...