Word: maestro
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...gridiron typhoon now howling around the Union rotunda. Local presses have used it as a springboard to boom Harman as a leading candidate to succeed Dick Harlow on Soldiers field come spring practice some six weeks hence. Everyone recalls the two spectacular victories over the Crimson that the Berlian maestro perpeirated...
...will get the job. This statement applies principally to backfield coach Bob Margarita and Jayvee mentor Chief Boston. An important consideration, though, is Harlow's unexplored contract and Sampson's prediction that Dick will take up some job like scouting that is closely allied to football. The Old Maestro still has a domicile in Cambridge and the H.A.A. might arrange to keep his great mind in the background while easing a neophyte like Boston into a big time coaching...
...himself was stopping other cellists, screaming at violinists, and cajoling a 50-voice chorus. He was rehearsing one of the year's memorable musical events-a broadcast of the entire opera Otello, in two Saturday broadcasts, an hour and a quarter each. "This Is Desdemona." For weeks the Maestro had been getting set for his one opera broadcast of the year. He had hand-picked his singers, rehearsed them relentlessly in his dressing room, accompanying them on the piano himself. There were few big bright names in his cast-he preferred to use singers he could mold...
...Maestro Artur Rodzinski of the Chicago Symphony took a pratfall by trying to take too good care of himself. He failed to turn up at 11 a.m. for the dress rehearsal of Tristan with Flagstad (see col. 3). He was still missing at 2:30 p.m. When he did appear, after another wait, he was still pale around the gills.. Mrs Rodzinski explained: "He took a sleeping pill that didn't work. Then he took another kind. In the morning he is sick. The doctor say the two kinds create a poison...
...Last week's concert, first of a series at popular prices (60?-$1.80), showed what could be done. Never had the works of Beethoven, Massenet and Moussorgsky sounded so sonorously in Caracas. At intermission, flanked by members of his revolutionary Junta, President Betancourt hustled backstage to congratulate the maestro. Cried Betancourt: "Magnifico...