Word: maestro
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have felt right at home. There was the familiar piano, and there was the Teleprompter with the script for the evening. Only the orchestra was missing, and that turned up later in the form of filmed musical examples starring the Boston Symphony and the Vienna Philharmonic, conducted by the Maestro himself. Later in the week, each lecture was redone in front of the television cameras and broadcast over local public television...
...good-humored William Hundley, summing up for John Mitchell, conceded that "the maestro of the White House may have been orchestrating some pretty strange tunes." But Hundley contended that "it is obvious that John Mitchell was not one of the boys in that band." Though Neal had referred to Defendants Robert Mardian and Kenneth Parkinson as "cymbals" in the ensemble, Mardian's attorney, Thomas Green, insisted that his client "never sat in the orchestra-he sat down in the seats ... finally got up and walked out." H.R. Haldeman, who might have been described as first violin, was not assigned...
Dvorak: The Stokowski Sound ("New World" Symphony; RCA Red Seal; 2 discs; $6.98). This two-record set of the familiar Symphony No. 9 in E Minor comprises the 92-year-old maestro's 1973 taping at Walthamstow Town Hall outside London with the New Philharmonia and a reissue of the same symphony recorded in 1927 when he led the Philadelphia Orchestra. Both readings are dramatic, reflecting the vigorous personality of the conductor. The new recording differs chiefly in tempo. Even with two repeats omitted in the Scherzo movement, the symphony runs some 5½ minutes longer, with a tediously...
Classic Style. A few short weeks ago, Wilson's comeback had looked as improbable as Heath's rebuke. In the first two weeks of the campaign, nothing Wilson touched seemed to go right.On public platforms, the acknowledged maestro of the fast quip and the telling statistic repeated tired jokes and muffed his facts and figures. "He looked and behaved more like an old actor making positively his last appearance than Moses leading us back to the promised land," said a Labor precinct worker...
...which values its secrecy as much as its singers, was saying much about what caused the 59-year-old maestro's departure. Certainly a major complaint was that after spending the early fall in New York, Kubelik decamped for Munich to fulfill previously scheduled conducting commitments and kept in touch with New York largely via phone and Telex exchanges. In his absence, things began to come apart, beginning in January with a spectacularly unlucky production of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde. Swedish Soprano Catarina Ligendza, scheduled for the first performances, canceled, citing illness. In turn, Tenor Jon Vickers...