Word: maestro
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recognize me, Maestro? I am Stokowski...
...Berlin, last week, Maestro Arturo Toscanini announced after the Scala Company's festival performance that only once more-at the Bayreuth festival next summer-will he conduct opera. Thereafter his baton will wave only at symphony concerts...
...Berlin, last week, Maestro Arturo Toscanini announced after the Scala Company's festival performance that only once more-at the Bayreuth festival next summer-will he conduct opera. Thereafter his baton will wave only at symphony concerts...
...baby that looks rather like another violin. . . . Although he calls them music and they were designed for the walls of a music room, there is nowhere visible a melodic line. . . . Let us say that it is a fairly good uprooted modern musical chord slurred and fumbled by a maestro who partook of too many cocktails the previous night...
...autographed manuscripts, including hitherto unpublished scenes, episodes, fragments, and variants"-the original Boris. In this form it was produced on the Soviet stage. Last week this edition was brought out by the Oxford University Press and announced for its first performance outside of Russia by Leopold Stokowski, enterprising maestro of the Philadelphia Orchestra (see below). He plans performances in Philadelphia and Manhattan with the assistance of the Mendelssohn Choir and eminent soloists to be announced. Moussorgsky wrote in 1872: "While I was writing Boris, I was Boris." Revival for Boris thus meant resurrection for the "debauched, defeated" composer whose madness...