Word: maestro
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Samuel Chotzinoff, 74, NBC's classical-music chief since 1941, who lured his good friend Arturo Toscanini back from Italy to conduct for NBC, became what some called "vice president for Toscanini," stayed on after the maestro retired to create topflight TV opera, commissioned Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors, started Leontyne Price on her way to stardom; of heart disease; in Manhattan...
Cage's mechanical maestro had a diamond-shaped head perched on a 6-ft. pedestal, with a single arm rigged to make one complete revolution in eight minutes, the duration of the piece. It was the crowning gimmick of what had once seemed like an intriguing idea: a Philharmonic avant-garde festival...
Though the 1964-65 TV season will not be fully under way for eight more months, the casualty list released last week showed that roughly 25 shows are already condemned. Sing Along fans will have to warble commercials next year; NBC has dismissed Maestro Mitch and the gang. NBC has also condemned The Joey Bishop Show, Du Pont Show of the Week, Espionage, The Richard Boone Show, Hollywood and the Stars. The Andy Williams Show, Bell Telephone Hour, Grindl and The Eleventh Hour are all hanging by a nerve end and all are likely to fall...
Basie, 59, has been a big-band maestro for 28 years. Except for the brazenly modern harmonies and voicings of his new arrangements, the "Basie sound" has remained steadfastly the same all along. With Benny Goodman his main competition, Basie was a swing king in the '30s, and his style is still defiantly prewar. In the first years of bop, Basie was considered so sadly reactionary that his band endured a long eclipse. Then, after four years' touring with a small combo, Basie collected a new 16-piece ensemble in 1952, and within a year it was fully...
Born. To Herbert von Karajan, 55, maestro of the Berlin Philharmonic, and French-born Eliette Mouret von Karajan, 28: their second child, second daughter; in St. Moritz, Switzerland...