Word: maestro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sang in the Madison Square Garden choir alongside Ethel Waters. He once skipped a $500 concert date so that he could play for a church banquet in Paramus, NJ. Buffalo Philharmonic Conductor Josef Krips recalls the time that Van came into his dressing room before a performance and said, "Maestro, let us pray." Krips, a Roman Catholic, dropped to his knees with the pianist. Said Van: "God give us his grace and power to make good music together...
...Peppers" (with Kay Walsh and Martita Hunt), a red-wigged song-and-dance team have a dressing-room brawl and on-stage run-in with the orchestra maestro--and while the curtain comes down the show goes...
...than ever. Visually tricked out with color, old-fashioned microphones and vignettes of young love (a car radio in a moonlit convertible of the '30s), Swing swung down the nostalgic side of the street. Besides tootling what is still the sweetest clarinet this side of the '30s, Maestro Goodman husked It's Gotta Be This or That, was spelled by such other oldtimers as Trumpeter Harry James in King Porter Stomp, Singers Ella Fitzgerald, Jo Stafford and Ray Eberle. But it was not until Benny meshed with his old quintet (including Teddy Wilson on piano...
...virtues, vices, boasts, buffooneries, lies and loves, Rivera was always flamboyant and noisy. Often he seemed only a big boy, but that was deceptive. And for the thousands of fellow Mexicans who referred to him affectionately as Diego, there were more thousands who called him Maestro. The second group honored Rivera's art-uneven, grandiose, and yet perhaps the most impressive body of painting ever produced by one man in the New World...
...them down to four. In the finals, first prize and 350,000 francs ($833) went to the U.S.'s Leslie Parnas, 25, first cellist with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. The Russian entries came in third and fourth, while a West German girl took second place. Cried Maestro Casals: "That was real music, the most remarkable contest I was ever present at." Said Cellist Parnas, who soloed with the St. Louis Symphony at 15: "I don't like to say that I beat the Russians because that was not the issue...