Word: maestro
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unhappy, Maestro?" asked Clyde...
...never make a film outside Italy," Federico Fellini said recently. "I would be an alien, unable to understand the subtle shadings of character and gesture. I would be like a tree uprooted, unhealthy out of its own soil." It is canny advice that should have been heeded by the maestro's peer and countryman, Michelangelo Antonioni, whose movies seem to deteriorate in direct proportion to the distance they are made from home...
Conflict broke out the year before Leinsdorf left, when, for the first time in the history of the orchestra, the orchestra members refused to give the traditional Christmas gift to the conductor. The animosity between maestro and players became more apparent when trumpeter Roger Voisin "stepped down" from his position in the first chair after an incident in a public performance during which he allegedly misplayed a passage deliberately to cause Leinsdorf embarrassment. With the orchestra's prestige falling apart, it was obvious that new blood was needed, and Leinsdorf's resignation was not too surprising. His successor, William Steinberg...
...department stores and a railroad right-of-way. Ten of the suspects are being held in $100,000 bond each. The Panthers note angrily that only one of the three whites arrested for actually setting dynamite charges in Manhattan office buildings in November has bail set that high. The maestro and his wife Felicia, who have long been concerned with civil liberties, agreed to allow friends who were interested to gather at their apartment to hear the Panthers' case. It was not exactly a jury of the Panthers' peers, however. Among the guests were such social notables...