Word: maestro
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Would Mexico City get no "little" opera? Even Chávez' foes were horrified. Conductor Limantour phoned Chávez. "Maestro," he said, "I won't take back one thing I've said about you. But this is a national emergency. I give you my orchestra." Snapped Don Carlos: "You remain everything I've ever said you are. But I accept...
...Villa-Lobos. He is a fiery little man who can jump in an instant from twinkling good humor to a shouting, stamping rage. He is vain enough to give his age as 60 (though friends say he is 67), and to rush his music indiscriminately into print. "The maestro," a Rio critic once said, "has written about 2,000 works. I would throw 1,950 of them away." The remaining 50 are still enough to make Villa-Lobos South America's greatest living composer...
...trim little maestro who serves up this musical corn felt that its popularity was natural and deserved. Said Bandleader-Songwriter Al Trace: "We always knew this music was in for keeps. Other stuff comes & goes, but this is the people . . . We play down to them, play requests and mention their names. We give them a good time and we play stuff they can dance to. How can you miss...
...Palace's S.R.O. audience stormily approved every bit of it. Sighed Carlton Emmy, maestro of the dog act: "It was like coming back to the old homestead . . ." Veteran Pat Rooney, who started in vaudeville back in 1890, said: "When I saw that audience I got that old feeling. Sure, television will bring back vaudeville. Vaudeville's never died." But it had changed a lot. Said Gus Van: "Years ago, you used to sit for an hour in the theater and make yourself up. Now a fellow with nice soft hands comes along and does it for you." Ella...
Debt of Honor. For the little maestro, it was far more than a personal triumph: he had also satisfied a debt of honor that had nagged him for 30 years. As a young man he had conducted Boito's pompously romantic opera, Mefistofele. Their friendship had ripened while Boito was busy winning greater fame as the librettist of Verdi's Otello and Falstaff-and plugging away for years at another opera of his own, Nerone...