Word: maestro
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Apparently Little was convincing, because the representatives of the "New York Times" and "The New York Herald-Tribune" led their respective stories with the Morningside Maestro's comments. The whole thing caused quite a stir, none of it very complementary to Samborski's competence...
...Philharmonia was founded in 1945 as a recording orchestra, has given no regular public concerts until this year's tour. But some of the musicians had played under the Maestro before, and knew his violent rehearsal temperament firsthand. The rest had heard legends of his ferocity. They awaited rehearsals with some apprehension...
...them once, murmuring bravos and molto benes. "Gentlemen," he told them at the end of a third rehearsal, "you could not have played better. I am very pleased." This week the winners of the reserved-seat lottery and the standing-room queue got to hear what had pleased the Maestro so. London's reaction: 13 years was a long time between Toscaninis, but it was worth the wait...
Conductor Serafin was back in the U.S., ready to admit that his pessimism may have been premature. After half a century of conducting in such world-famed opera houses as Milan's La Scala, Rome's Royal Opera and Buenos Aires' Teatro Colón, Maestro Serafin had signed up to lead the Italian wing at Manhattan's lively young City Opera...
...Phony! The first mudpie was hurled by an old friend of the family, Dorothy Wesley Bernie, widow of Ben ("The Old Maestro") Bernie and matron of honor at the Rose wedding 13 years ago. In California she filed a suit for criminal libel against Billy, and swore out a warrant for his arrest if he ever set foot in the state. Her charge: Rose was passing around an affidavit from her onetime Negro maid, Alberta Jones, that contained obscene, "horrible lies" about sex orgies that supposedly took place in Mrs. Bernie's home and involved her, Eleanor...