Word: maestro
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fulfillment of a dream!" crowed NBC's General David Sarnoff: "What a joy it is that this can be done while our beloved maestro is still a young man." And with that, Arturo Toscanini, who will be 81 this week, raised his baton, and led the NBC Symphony into its first televised concert...
...West about twenty years ago, Chuck Arnold and his Sophisticates were the rage of the countryside. All the little flappers sought a knowing look from the smiling maestro, but Jeanne Crain kissed him and this made more of an impression. In less time than it takes to sing "I'll See You in My Dreams" they were married, thus ending the plot, part I. Plot, part II, almost brings the band to New York and the big time, but just at the opportune moment November 1929 comes along and brings a depression. Plot, part III, finally gets the band into...
...gridiron typhoon now howling around the Union rotunda. Local presses have used it as a springboard to boom Harman as a leading candidate to succeed Dick Harlow on Soldiers field come spring practice some six weeks hence. Everyone recalls the two spectacular victories over the Crimson that the Berlian maestro perpeirated...
...will get the job. This statement applies principally to backfield coach Bob Margarita and Jayvee mentor Chief Boston. An important consideration, though, is Harlow's unexplored contract and Sampson's prediction that Dick will take up some job like scouting that is closely allied to football. The Old Maestro still has a domicile in Cambridge and the H.A.A. might arrange to keep his great mind in the background while easing a neophyte like Boston into a big time coaching...
...himself was stopping other cellists, screaming at violinists, and cajoling a 50-voice chorus. He was rehearsing one of the year's memorable musical events-a broadcast of the entire opera Otello, in two Saturday broadcasts, an hour and a quarter each. "This Is Desdemona." For weeks the Maestro had been getting set for his one opera broadcast of the year. He had hand-picked his singers, rehearsed them relentlessly in his dressing room, accompanying them on the piano himself. There were few big bright names in his cast-he preferred to use singers he could mold...