Word: maestro
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scene to climb their cage like monkeys to get a better view. "Higher, Fernanda!" he roared through a megaphone. "Climb higher and hang those lovely boobs of yours through the bars." The girl followed instructions, hung on precariously and was rewarded by a blown kiss from "the maestro," as he is known to his adoring veteran crew. Fellini is a masterly politician, roaming the crowded sound stage to flirt shamelessly with the women and backslap the men. Says he: "I am the captain of a glorious ocean liner. My crew and I work together to make a big joke...
Died. Meyer Davis, 83, millionaire maestro of a music empire that has included as many as 80 bands and more than 1,000 musicians; in Manhattan. Davis started his own small band when he was rejected as a violinist for his high school orchestra. In 1914, he dropped out of law school to become a full-time bandleader. Seven years later he played at the inaugural party of President Warren Harding and was on his way to becoming a favorite society and college bandteader. So popular was the Davis sound that his bands were booked years in advance and have...
...that the Saints consider them irreverent. "The Mormons really think they are superior people," says a Sinner cellist. "They are polite to us and pleasant enough, but we really don't mingle with them at all." The biggest difference between the two buses is the attitude toward the Maestro. To the Saints, Abravanel is a revered father figure. To the Sinners, he is a typical conductor-a dictator touched with fanaticism...
...York City Opera. Then she warmed up her baton on a dramatically authoritative La Traviata and a breezy production of Donizetti's The Daughter of the Regiment. Somogi joined City Opera as a coach and rehearsal pianist in 1966. Do orchestras react differently when the maestro is a woman? "When I wore my low-cut dress, there was some notice," admits Somogi. "Well, Zubin Mehta is a very good-looking man, and you can bet the women in his orchestra notice...
...some others, in the U.S. Another entry, however, would have to be Alvar Aalto of Finland, who, at 77, may well still be the most original designer building anywhere. Aalto? He is scarcely a household name in the U.S., because he has done little work in America.* But "the maestro," as he is often called in his native land, remains a seer with a special transnational influence-one that is characteristically not so much doctrinaire as moral...