Word: maestro
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...claim as both showman and businessman. The Waring Corp. (whose Waring Mixer is a U.S. kitchen and barroom standby) is still doing nicely. So are the Waring Musical Library, the Shawnee Press (which sells the Waring choral arrangements), concert bookings, recordings. All told, the Waring enterprises gross the Maestro "at least" $2 million a year...
Divorced. Eugene Ormandy, 47, the Philadelphia Orchestra's balding, barrel-chested maestro; by onetime Harpist Steffy Goldner Ormandy, fiftyish; after 25 years, one child; in Reno...
When Don Mishara, maestro selected to do the musical honors for the Lowell House dance this Friday, breaks into the strains of "Lost Without You" by Walter P. Burrier '50, it will doubtless bring a wistful tear into the eye of the author...
...kindly, bustling Max Reiter was back in Manhattan as guest conductor of the ABC Symphony Orchestra. In eight years in San Antonio, he had turned 40 homespun musicians into a smoothly functioning symphony of 78 pieces. Among the treasures in his new scrapbook: U.S. citizenship, a letter from the maestro he had once trembled before in Milan. Wrote Toscanini, after hearing a Reiter broadcast: "A fine performance, which is a thing that does not happen very often even with famous orchestras and widely publicized conductors...
...knew what kind of reception Wilhelm Furtwängler would get, even though he had been cleared of all charges of friendship and collaboration with the Nazis. "Politics somehow always get mixed up with these things," said one of the Berlin Philharmonic's violinists. But when their old maestro walked in, with the dignified and austere manner the oldtimers knew so well, the tension disappeared. Every man in the orchestra got to his feet; the violinists tapped their bows on the instrument stands in tribute...