Word: maestro
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...Showman. To raise money for his orchestra, Katims appears at fashion shows and candlelight musicales. at "Meet the Maestro'' luncheons and "Sympho-neve" dances. He has been known to turn his baton over in midconcert to civic-minded businessmen and, in one case, to a seven-year-old child. To warm an audience up, he may crack jokes between numbers or invite it to join him in singing The Star-Spangled Banner. Last week hard-selling Conductor Katims staged a concert titled "Composium Nineteen-Sixty," featuring works of five resident Seattle composers. Most of the works were pleasantly...
...your April 18 TIME LISTINGS, there is a reference to me- unavoidable, since a current novel of mine has been on your bestseller list for a good many weeks. And in your Music section, you lead off with an appreciation of a recording of excerpts from the rehearsals of Maestro Toscanini, in which I had a certain part. Your music critic, like your book reviewer, who evidently considers my novels beneath his notice, has chosen to ignore me, which is a treatment I much prefer to possible deprecation...
...Foundation; and that my part in the record was thought necessary for and by the largely lay audience to whom the rehearsal excerpts were first presented. I am sure your music critic considers my remarks as unworthy of his notice as your book reviewer considers my novels; but Maestro Toscanini was one of the people who recognize that I have my place in American letters and in musical expertise...
...Ernest Hemingway Special (CBS 8:30-10 p.m.). A fine cast - Richard Burton, Maximilian Schell, Sally Ann Howes, Betsy von Furstenberg - gives The Fifth Column a fancy workout as the old maestro's only play (set in Madrid during the Spanish Civil War) bounces from bar to bedroom to bomb shelter...
...Leningrad for six concerts, will go to Kiev for four, return to Moscow for three more. Then come Germany, France, Yugoslavia, Italy, Scandinavia, and finally on Oct. 10, London. If the reception is anything like those to date, New York will have trouble keeping the Philharmonic and its maestro at home from...