Word: maestro
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Leonard Bernstein, who sat with his head buried in his hands during most of the recital, was nearly overcome. "I was deeply moved by the entire occasion," he admitted, "not merely by the music of Casals but by the company in which it was played." Maestro Casals was the calmest of all. His laconic comment: "It went well...
Photographer David Douglas Duncan had often passed the locked door during his visits to the Riviera villa of Pablo Picasso, but in the three years he had known "the Maestro." he never guessed what was stored on the other side. One day in 1959, Picasso took him by the arm, unlocked the door, and motioned him inside. There, and in other rooms in the villa, were 532 finished paintings by Picasso that the world had never seen-"the greatest unrecorded treasure in modern art." Duncan says...
...Mitty-slicker appeared at Tanglewood (following a warmup children's concert with the Boston Pops back on the Charles the day before), he shook hands with his concertmaster and then with most of the rest of the 104 pieces, broke up the audience by portraying a maestro with a psychosomatic itch, employing a flyswatter baton for Flight of the Bumble...
...respected Brera Galleria, which last week put up for sale 248 examples of modern art that included six De Chiricos, two of them in his metaphysical style. Strolling through the exhibit before the sale, white-thatched De Chirico, now 72. was spotted by an attendant who asked: "Maestro, if you were on a sinking ship with these six paintings, vhich one would you save?" "I'd save them all," replied the maestro, and promptly went about "saving...
Frank Glazer Plays Musical Autographs (Concert-Disc). The musical calling cards of the great composers as they were inscribed in various souvenir albums. Included are Mozart's Marche Funebre del Signor Maestro Contrapunto (Funeral March of Master Counterpoint), a mock-heroic exercise for his pupil, Babette Ployer; Beethoven's graceful and pensive Bagatelle for Therese Malfatti, the 18-year-old niece of his doctor; Wagner's Ankunft bei den Schwarzen Schwänen (Arrival at the Black Swans), which sounds a little like Tristan und Isolde as written by Frédéric Chopin...