Word: maestro
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...triumphal 75th birthday trip to the U.S., Nadia Boulanger, Paris' matriarch of modern music, became the first woman ever to conduct a full concert by The New York Philharmonic. Borrowing the podium of one of the few notable American composers who was never her pupil, mercurial Maestro Leonard Bernstein, the "tender tyrant" led the orchestra through psalms by her late sister...
...names in Italian opera. "Go back to Rome, fatty!" shouted the galleries after the late Tenor Beniamino Gigli hit a sour note. Toscanini swore never again to step into the Parma pit after a heckler upset a 1912 performance of the Forza del Destino overture by shouting "Maestro, the violins are out of tune!" But lately the gallery gadflies are getting even sharper -or performers are getting softer. Opera has almost been run out of town...
...would say that Maestro Annigoni paints as he lives, chaotically and simply. Certainly, the portrait is not characteristic of our President. And what injustice did he inflict upon the royal family...
...famous portrait painter, Pietro Annigoni, 51, who made headlines in years past with his paintings of Queen Elizabeth, Prince Philip and Princess Margaret. A vivacious and expansive fellow who lives in a kind of chaotic simplicity in Florence, surrounded like a Renaissance master with admiring students who call him Maestro, mix his paints, and fill in the backgrounds of his frescoes, Annigoni at first did not understand the need of secrecy, and soon the Italian press and radio were blaring out the news that he was White Housebound. Luckily nobody connected his assignment with TIME...
From a man who saw Brahms plain and studied under César Franck came a dirge for modern music. Asked by a London newsman which 20th century composers seemed likely to stand the test of time. Paris-born Maestro Pierre Monteux, 86, flatly replied: ''I don't see any, except perhaps Stravinsky." In a tart catalogue of inadequacies, the peppery new conductor of the London Symphony went on: "Mahler, he won't live; he's an imitator. Prokofiev, I don't think so. Shostakovich, no. Hindemith, no inspiration. Bartok: I give...