Word: maestro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trustees' feelings, can hardly find an orchestra to conduct. On one side he is Blanked by a shameless manager who ten times a day tries to save the day with desperate lies, on the other by a wife who once saved it through charm. Now separated from the maestro, she wants a divorce so she can marry someone else; the litch is that she was not married the first time...
Angel Voice. Much has happened to bolster her ego in the twelve years since Toscanini boosted her to fame by making her part of the great, emotion-charged concert that marked the postwar reopening of La Scala. The Maestro conceded that she sang with "the voice of an angel...
...conductors, deftly cut his singers to size, and in only seven seasons changed the house from a kind of glorified star club into a smooth-functioning repertory theater. During one rehearsal, temperamental Soprano Farrar turned to him in a fury and shouted: "You forget, maestro, that I am the star!" Toscanini, with a weary wag of his head, replied: "I thank God I know no stars except those in heaven which are perfect...
...wealth supplied by Mullers X rays gave genetics a big boost, and Beadle felt the benefit along with his colleagues. After getting his doctorate (in genetics) at Cornell in 1931, he went to the California Institute of Technology on a National Research Council fellowship. Dr. Morgan, grand maestro of the fruit flies, had moved there in 1928 to head the biology section, and several of his keenest disciples had come with him. Young Dr. Beadle found himself in the best genetic society...
...Catalonia-born Maestro Casals, who detests Spanish Dictator Francisco Franco so heartily that he will not play in Spain, moved to Puerto Rico in 1956 from his longtime home in self-exile in the French Pyrenean town of Prades. He played last April at the yearly Festival Casals in San Juan, is now in Prades for a reprise of the festivals he used to hold there. *A Reuters correspondent once needled Munoz with the question: "Yes, but when will Puerto Rico get economic freedom from the U.S.?" Shot back Munoz: "About the same time Britain does...