Word: maestro
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...treats double-bassists like second basemen. They have been known to stop musicians on the street to plead for autographs and crowd the stage door after concerts to shake the hands of fiddlers. And in store windows all over town, they mount pictures of their hero, the glowering, inescapable Maestro George Szell...
...orchestra that he develops into musical accomplishment - as Paul Paray did in ten years with Detroit, and as Robert Whitney is doing in Louisville, Izler Solomon in Indianapolis and Hans Schwieger in Kansas City. Occasionally, as with Szell in Cleveland, the orchestra's sponsors share the maestro's boundless aspirations, and stand back while he takes the orchestra as far from home as its excellence makes it welcome...
...ways. The New York Philharmonic has made a refined art of ignoring any inept visitors among the conductors who substitute for Leonard Bernstein each year: the players keep all eyes studiously away from the podium in hopes of informing the audience that it is hearing their performance, not the maestro...
Cleveland, he says at every opportunity, "is my home." But the minute his schedule permits, he disappears to Europe, where he plays golf ("gladly but badly") and heckles his wife in the kitchen. He seldom entertains, but when he does his door may open on the maestro smiling absurdly from inside an apron that says "Whoopee" across the front. And there is the grand piano, the small treasury of art, the cabinet of great wines, the well-set table. Helene, his wife, is dauntlessly affable, but, try though he will, Szell in company seems to be listening to the interior...
...first, and La Scala's new second-act setting looked more like the Place de la Concorde than Boheme's little Left Bank square. Still, it was a gripping performance of a great opera, and Von Karajan was honored with 18 curtain calls. "Viva, Karajan!" and "Bravo, Maestro!" shouted the audience. The whole affair seemed to prove that to Italians, grand opera counts more than politics or personalities. Or did it only demonstrate that peace at La Scala can be won by the presence of 450 cops...