Word: maestro
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Metropolitan Opera, with the notable help of its new conductor Fritz Reiner, had made a good many of its critics eat their words with a great performance of Salome (TIME, Feb. 14). Last week, the Met and its Maestro Reiner served them another mouthful-and let a nationwide radio audience...
...thought of Chicago's climate bothered him, for one thing: "I'm afraid the wind would make me nervous." He was even more worried about Chicago's hospitality. Explained an intimate friend: "The maestro . . . fears he may be unwelcome because he was appointed first musician of the Reich by Hitler, although he has [since] been cleared by the denazification courts . . ." But Furtwangler was told there was "no need to worry." In Vienna, the gaunt, 62-year-old conductor announced the deal himself: he would conduct for eight weeks at a sum neither he nor Chicago would reveal...
...oboe-playing British wife Evelyn Rothwell packed aboard a Portuguese freighter in New York five years ago, his musical stock was ankle low. At 37, a youngster as conductors go, he had made the tactical mistake of following Arturo Toscanini to a podium that had taken all of the Maestro's fire and ice to control. As boss of the proud, 106-year-old New York Philharmonic-Symphony, Barbirolli had neither Toscanini's precise beat nor his fearsome bearing. The musicians were soon in a state of anarchy. Barbirolli left unhappily after seven years...
Despite his grumbling, Maestro Rodolfo Gaona, 62, was having a good time. To meet his complaint that the bulls had been puny lately, there was a new rule against bulls weighing less than 990 pounds. And the novillero (novice) he considered the season's most promising-blue-eyed Rafael Rodriguez-was making his debut that Sunday afternoon in the big time...
...look" (early fortyish). The night after her concert last week, she went to dinner with Arturo Toscanini, who had listened in frowning silence to her voice when she was 20, then next day sent her a contract to sing at Milan's La Scala. At dinner, says Ebe, "Maestro was in a reminiscing mood, but he only covered the period 1898 to 1913-not my time...