Word: maestro
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...financed an orchestra for Koussevitzky to practice on, and gave a series of concerts in Moscow and St. Petersburg. The Koussevitzky Concerts began to catch on with the Russian public. The Koussevitzkys chartered a ferryboat, made a tour of the Volga. By 1910 Koussevitzky was the most widely-known maestro in Tsarist Russia. Meanwhile he had started a publishing house for music by contemporary Slavic composers, published for the first time (thus, incidentally, sparing himself the performance royalties) works by such famed artists as the late Alexander Scriabin, Sergei Prokofieff and Igor Stravinsky...
...xylophone player, an accordion maestro, and an English horn player completed the list of individual musicians, and a six-piece orchestra called the "Crimsonians" then took the spotlight. How to hit a rock while shooting rapids in a canoe was revealed by the final performer, described as a "lecturer." Russell T. Sharpe '28 director of the Bureau, said that a descriptive folder about the students would be sent to 2000 possible clients...
...when famed Maestro Arturo Toscanini snubbed Germany's Bayreuth Festival and decided to conduct in Salzburg instead, Salzburg's annual festival became Europe's biggest single tourist attraction. To it flocked not only music-lovers from all the world, but a great horde of gawping sightseers, visiting royalty, swank socialites...
Last spring, Austria's Nazification left the future of the Salzburg Festival in doubt. Maestro Toscanini, implacable foe of Naziism, immediately announced his resignation. Nazi racial policies ruled out Salzburg's two remaining luminaries. Conductor Bruno Walter and Stage Director Reinhardt. Though Nazi authorities soon announced that the festival would be continued as usual, it was obvious that Salzburg, 1938 model, was going to be very different from the Salzburgs that had preceded...
...Maestro Arturo Toscanini has done his best to call attention to his countrymen's symphonic music. So has Bernardino Molinari, the spry, white-haired conductor who is currently conducting a series of three broadcasts with the NBC Symphony Orchestra. But last week, as he announced the program of his final broadcast, even patriotic Conductor Molinari had neglected his Italian contemporaries. Only modern pieces were Composer Respighi's Le Fontane di Roma, and Composer Pizzetti's suite of incidental music for D'Annunzio's drama, La Pisanella...