Word: maestro
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Directed by Ron Howard, a maestro of feel-good movies, Far and Away is basically a fairy tale. Poor boy meets rich girl in turn-of-the-century Ireland. They run away to America and starve and freeze and fall in love in Boston. Rich white male villains temporarily separate the handsome pair...
Just get ready to put your hand over your heart and give a firm salute to the television. The maestro of political manipulation wants our vote. Let's make sure we know what we're voting...
...rock, punk and funk. Elektra Records is pushing Eric Gales, 17, a wunderkind who leads a musically adventurous three-man band. Epic recently released a debut album by Eye & I, a genre-busting quintet propelled by the lusty vocals of female singer DK Dyson. And pop music maestro Quincy Jones has given his blessings to the movement: his label, Qwest Records, gave newcomers Who's Image a $750,000 advance, an unusually high bid for unproved talent...
...Impresario and I1 maestro di cappella--two one-act operas presented by Banchetto Musicale at Jordan Hall. Call 864-5988. Friday...
...right protocol was observed. KURT MASUR, making his first appearance as music director of the New York Philharmonic (succeeding Zubin Mehta), rightly judged that the occasion was more ceremonial than musical. So the German maestro began with a polite bow to America, conducting two short pieces by contemporary composer John Adams and a set of Old American Songs by Aaron Copland (winningly sung by baritone Thomas Hampson). Then Masur, who has led Leipzig's venerable Gewandhaus Orchestra since 1970, reached under his tailcoat and produced his own credential: an authoritative, warmly expressive version of Anton Bruckner's Symphony...