Word: maestro
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People who go to hear Sir Thomas Beecham's brilliant conducting expect to experience some antic interruptions by the maestro, or at least to be distracted a little by the hoarse shouts he directs at his orchestra. Since 68-year-old Sir Thomas' second marriage, in 1945, they can also expect to find his wife, a pianist, as featured soloist...
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 (Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky conducting; Victor, 10 sides). A highly polished version of one of the decade's chief musical achievements, by the maestro who gave the symphony its U.S. premiere in November 1945. Performance: excellent...
...right slot in his Varsity boat--not seeing how fast the brawniest eight men could propel themselves through the water. As the crew candidates--everybody is still a candidate--grow tougher, the stroke goes up, but from the pre-vacation beat of 24 or 26, the maestro of the slides and stretchers has never pushed things above 30 to the minute...
...most extraordinary sessions I have ever witnessed at the Chamber. When Jacques Duclos explained the Political Bureau's decision he got the most lukewarm cheering from the Communist benches that the chubby maestro has ever had to endure. Marty looked as though it killed him to clap his hands together twice, and after the confidence vote (411-to-0) I heard him say to Thorez in the corridor: 'Is that how we defend the interests of the working class...
Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps (San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Monteux conducting; Victor, 8 sides). Stravinsky's disjointed, noisy ballet music played with assurance, brilliance, clarity and precision by the tubby little maestro who first shocked a Paris audience with it 34 years...