Word: maestro
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...That evening, inside the city hall, Composer Igor Stravinsky was conducting the South African Broadcasting Corp.'s symphony orchestra in the first of five concerts for whites only (a sixth was reserved for blacks). Stravinsky had asked that seating be integrated, but the broadcasting authorities coldly refused. The maestro's opinion: "Music takes precedence over politics. I don't think about these things because it is outside my competence. I have so many other things to think about." In any case the Black Sash women turned up at dawn the next morning to relight the torch...
...invited," read the program, "to greet and praise De Koven in the Ladies' Lounge. Please refrain from criticizing the Maestro, for it never does any good and only gives De Koven the colic." At Manhattan's Town Hall last week, that injunction served to introduce Classical Disk Jockey Seymour De Koven, an evangelist of the baroque, a man dedicated to the proposition that scarcely any music worth listening to was written after 1828, the year Schubert died. After him, practically no composers were able to write decent "barococo" music, and the public had to settle for "nobodies like...
...California's Institute for Special Musical Studies. All three men are full professors there, and each devotes two afternoons a week to teaching-mostly by demonstrating his own matchless technique. The students, who range from talented teenagers to working professionals, sit with their instruments at the ready while Maestro Piatigorsky rumbles out his Russian-flavored instructions, or Primrose -ruddy, tweedy and bespectacled- earnestly demonstrates the fine points of bowing. The unexpected comic on the faculty is normally glacial Jascha Heifetz, who thoroughly enjoys his own mild musical gags, e.g., rippling through Bach with assorted notes slightly flatted...
...again, Joselito hardly ever. Belmonte was always the torero of "four olés and an ay!"-the scream coming whenever he was gored or pitched into the air on the horns of a bull. Then, in 1920, Joselito was killed in the arena, leaving Belmonte the unchallenged maestro. When he retired at last, he had killed 1,650 bulls and been gored scores of times. "How many?" stammering Belmonte once said. "Let us say f-f-fifty. I like that number of fifty...
...boss in a concerto-the conductor or the soloist?" rhetorically demanded the New York Philharmonic's Maestro Leonard Bernstein, 43, in his latest outburst of podium pedagogy. Answer: "Sometimes one, sometimes the other, but almost always the two manage to get together"-except in the case that prompted Lenny's musings: the latest Philharmonic appearance of intractable but talented Pianist Glenn Gould, 29. After explaining to the 2,800 in the audience that he disapproved of Gould's interpretation of Brahms's D Minor but would defend to the death an artist's right...