Word: maestro
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...scalpers set the price of seats at $30. When Mitropoulos arrived four hours late at Athens' airport, after a bumpy flight from Naples, hundreds of admirers greeted him with cries of "Yassou, yassou-Hello, hello." and thrust bunches of tuberoses and laurel into his arms. But the maestro was in no mood for adulation. "I was sick as a dog," he blurted into a microphone, "and I still feel ill. I'm very happy to be back. Now please let me pass...
...shoulder the orchestra's harp into a bus in order to get it to the theater in time, was thrown out by the bus conductor. (He finally made it by hitching a ride on a truck.) King Paul, Queen Frederika and their two oldest children applauded the maestro's interpretation of Schumann's dramatic Second Symphony, and Mitropoulos joined them for a chat at the theater bar, where Princess Sophie served him a glass of water (a Mitropoulos must at intermission). When the royal couple extended him an invitation for lunch for the following day, the maestro...
WHEN Louis Armstrong took young Gary Crosby under his trumpeting wing, some Negroes shook their heads, wondered: "With all the promising Negro youngsters who need a musical break, why did the mighty maestro choose, as his protégé, a towhead born with a silver spoon, heir to a golden throat?" When wealthy Mrs. Pearl C. Anderson gifted the Dallas Community Chest Trust Fund with several blocks of downtown property worth over $200,000, more than one brother gasped: "Why give all that wealth to the white folks?" When Michigan's Congressman Charles Diggs Jr. named...
...could be her estranged second husband, Maestro Leopold Stokowski, or her occasional boy friend, Actor-Crooner Frank Sinatra...
...onstage and no fans, U.S. Ambassador John Peurifoy came backstage to insist that the men take off their white jackets. After that they often played in shirtsleeves, delicately abandoning suspenders in favor of belts. In Manila an enthusiast presented them with sport shirts decorated with pictures of Maestro Arturo Toscanini, who trained the orchestra (as the NBC Symphony), and left in the spring...