Word: maestro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Leningrad for six concerts, will go to Kiev for four, return to Moscow for three more. Then come Germany, France, Yugoslavia, Italy, Scandinavia, and finally on Oct. 10, London. If the reception is anything like those to date, New York will have trouble keeping the Philharmonic and its maestro at home from...
Neurotic Explosions. During the closed hearings, Stoky accused Gloria of keeping terrible hours, attending too many parties, spending too little time with the boys. Gloria, in turn, charged Stoky with "tyranny," cattily observed that he is not 72, as he claims, but 85, declared that the Maestro hovered over the boys' lives like an "overanxious, harassing and harassed great-grandmother, creating neurotic explosions over minutiae...
...seeks to be restored to the tyrannical and despotic power he asserted over me when we were married," Gloria, herself a onetime child-custody pawn, disclosed that she once warned Stokie in a letter: "I do not want my boys exposed to your paranoid attitudes." In rejoinder, the maestro tartly accused Gloria of absentee motherism, late to bed and late to rise, traipsing out for dinner, often missing lunch with the children because she "makes morning visits to her psychiatrist and returns home...
...another seizure," said the ashen-faced concertmaster. "The maestro can't go on. Perhaps if you took a moment to look at the score . . ." The world's greatest undiscovered conductor rose from his seat on the aisle. "A score won't be necessary," said Walter Mitty quietly. "Where is the baton...
...seventy-eight the Maestro is not yet finished with concocting enigmas. For the past six decades we have learned to recognize many Picassos: Picasso the archpriest of modern art, heir to Cezanne; Picasso the innovator and incorrigible prophet; Picasso the virtuoso of an infinitely flexible technique; Picasso the wit, even the coquette...