Word: maestro
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When we reach the day when opinion is controlled either for politics or money, we will be on our way to join Joe Stalin, Handsome Adolph and Maestro Mussolini. With those boys you take what is dished out to you. You not only like it if it kills you-but you also cheer for it-or else. That is the end of free speech which is the end of everything properly called American...
...broadcast ... I have been put in a spot. I refuse to go on with the program unless the songs are cut out." Harassed Dell officials finally coddled Iturbi into going on with the program, putting the rest of the "Iloveyou" songs off to the end. Mollified, the muscular maestro-who used to be an amateur boxer and was interviewed as such last week by Sports Writer Cy Peterman of the Philadelphia Bulletin-seated himself at the piano, gave an account of the Rhapsody in Blue of the late George Gershwin,* which for technical brilliance and jazz feeling topped anything Gershwin...
...under oldtime Conductor Henry Hadley on the Hanna Farm at Lenox. Last summer, on an estate near Stockbridge, three concerts by the Boston Symphony under Dr. Kaussevitzky netted $1,800, caused organizers of the Festival to begin to talk of "an American Salzburg" and impelled the stately Boston maestro to urge that the number of summer concerts be increased and the Festival obtain a permanent home. Result was that the present owners of Tanglewood, Mrs. Gorham Brooks and Miss Mary Aspinwall Tappan of Brookline, turned their estate over to the Festival committee, which raised $16,000 in pledges...
...sits closest to the conductor (coxswain), takes his orders direct, sets an example to the other players. NBC sent for Mischakoff because, when Arturo Toscanini arrives to conduct Radio's proudest symphonic programs, the NBC Orchestra must have a stroke of the calibre to which the old maestro is accustomed...
...York Philharmonic-Symphony have included an Englishman, a Russian, a Rumanian and a Mexican (TIME. Nov. 16). Last week.a Pole, Artur Rodzinski, stepped up to finish out the last eight weeks of a season which Philharmonic devotees consider has almost compensated by its variety for the absence of Maestro Arturo Toscanini. Next season, with John Barbirolli on the podium throughout, promises to be sound and satisfying but not eventful...