Word: maestro
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...British television (The Search for the Nile), campaigned for the job and guarded Lucas' creation zealously. Says he: "It is as if Lucas were a famous composer who said to me, 'Here's a 120-piece orchestra. Here's my music. I'd like you to conduct.' " In this maestro's view, Kershner had carelessly strayed from the true faith. Marquand was disturbed to detect that in Empire Artoo-Detoo was occasionally painted with black squares instead of his customary blue, and that Darth Vader sometimes wielded his light-saber with only one hand, like an oldtime Texas sheriff. "Everyone...
...those of us for whom life without opera is unthinkable, your perceptive story on Maestro James Levine [Jan. 17] was welcome. Bravo for your recognition of a brilliant artist...
...shirtsleeved, tousled-haired physicist bounded across the platform, he unleashed his ideas in staccato bursts and gesticulated with the verve of a maestro. "You have to pardon Carlo," said a colleague. "He's a little high-strung these days." With good reason. Using one of the world's most powerful atom smashers, Italy's Carlo Rubbia, 48, and his team of 134 European and American scientists appear to have snared a trophy that has been the dream of physicists for two generations: discovery of the so-called W particle, the elusive carrier of one of the universe...
...voice on the other end of the line said, "This is Arthur Rubinstein" [Jan. 3]. My husband, who was superintendent of the school district, was sure someone was pulling his leg. But no, the maestro was in the area and wondered if there was a school interested in a spur-of-the-moment program. Rubinstein's greatness was in his wanting to share his God-given talent with others...
...dozen or so performances a year) and would cease doing most of the concert tours and recording sessions that provide the orchestra members with the bulk of their incomes. The standoff has Berliners contemplating the very real possibility of an end to 44 years of beautiful music from the maestro and the philharmonic...