Word: impresarios
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...only important U.S. conductor who ever climbed from the pit of a Broadway movie house. The climb began in 1920 when Ormandy, then a moderately gifted European concert violinist, arrived in Manhattan with a contract for a $30,000 concert tour, found that both the $30,000 and the impresario had vanished. Ormandy was down to his last nickel when he landed a job with the late Samuel L. (Roxy) Rothafel, who set him to fiddling in the last row of the second violin section at Broadway's Capitol Theater. Ormandy played second fiddle so well that...
Before many seasons were over she was on her way to study in Paris with the parting blessing of the late Otto H. Kahn. In a few years, Impresario Giulio Gatti-Casazza had signed her for a Metropolitan debut as Mimi...
This strange confession was made Dec. 10 by a U.S. Marine who had been to Guadalcanal, New Caledonia, Tulagi, Bougainville. He was Combat Correspondent Sergeant Roy Maypole, 29, onetime radio soap-opera impresario. He spoke too soon. When the Marines landed on Bougainville's Empress Augusta Bay, Sergeant Maypole heard some shooting and saw some Japs...
...week, even for James Caesar Petrillo. The boss of the American Federation of Musicians with one hand chalked up a notable victory resulting from his 13-months' ban against new recordings; with the other he opened the door on a new career as a symphonic impresario...
...symphonic impresario, Jimmy Petrillo had to admit that he was a bust...