Word: maestro
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Despite being on a diet, the maestro is running late from lunch. Yesterday it was Lucio's fine dining in Paddington ("wonderful"); today something "very light. I am trying to lose weight," says Gianluigi Gelmetti, the reigning musical head of the Rome Opera and new chief conductor and artistic director of the Sydney Symphony. Finally he arrives at the Sydney Opera House in true Italian style, accompanied by a translator and publicist, among others. After a few minutes of tentative English, he warms up to his subject. "I think it's a very important moment," he says of the coming...
...frock coat, he's looking trimmer - "piu magro," as he puts it. And his marketing department has been working overtime. Lining the streets of the CBD, in time for this week's Requiem at the Opera House, are banners welcoming Gelmetti to the city, with a portrait of the maestro looking as grave and august as a Roman emperor: All hail Gianluigi! When he first saw the street signs, "I was very touched by this manifestation of love from Sydney," Gelmetti recalls. "I was very near to piangere...
...Calnin, now with De Waart at the Hong Kong Philharmonic. "So you get a more complete string picture in which the top voice is still perfectly clear, enriched by what's underneath. It's a brilliant idea." A blast of basso profundo - that's the only extra weight the maestro wants to carry in Sydney. Now to turn dream into thrilling reality...
...foreign policy matters over the past two years, and Rumsfeld frequently let him go. That allowed Wolfowitz to push the whole Bush team to the right, which also let Rumsfeld align himself with that crowd when it served his purpose to do so. "Rumsfeld's a big-enough maestro to understand that Wolfowitz was the leading edge and that someone had to do it," a Pentagon associate says. "Are there times when it made him uncomfortable? Absolutely. Are there times when he had to crank it back? Yes. But did it work for him? Clearly...
...It’s a bit of a conundrum for friends,” Dean Hunt, Schoenhof’s Foreign Books employee and long-time language maestro, admits with a chuckle. Because, despite the fact that Hunt knows French, German, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Danish, Norwegian, Czech, Polish, Ukranian, Finnish and a smattering of Slavic languages, he hasn’t ventured off this continent in 18 years. “I hate flying,” he says, at home with the store’s obscure volumes and multilingual clientele. Hunt leans back decisively...