Word: maestro
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Mozart: Symphony No. 41 ("Jupiter") in C (NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini conducting; Victor, 7 sides). The Maestro's "Jupiter" suffers from mushy recording, which makes Bruno Walter's 1945 version with the New York Philharmonic preferable...
Perhaps the most startled author of the week was brooding Eugene O'Neill. He has "Seraphic Sex Appeal," an artists' agent named Leora Thompson told the press. She put him in a special beauty class with Symphony Maestro Dimitri Mitropoulos, Tyrone Power, General Omar Bradley, and Irving Berlin. "It seems like a light from the cosmos shines in their eyes," said she. "Sanctified sex is what it really...
...doubled on the flute last night as Eliot House opened its Christmas festivities with an uproarious rendition of Ben Johnson's "Bartholemew Fair." Messrs. Alcorn, Kilty, and Spencer, and "Esquire" Martin, who "looked begotten on a cart at harvest time," led a cast of 28 under the direction of Maestro Allegretti...
...conductor and pianist as his name would suggest, and personally accounts for fourteen of the twenty-three Rachmaninoff tidbits. He discovers a budding young pianistic genius on a Pennsylvania farm in the person of Myra Hassman, who plays the Concerto twenty-seven times and addresses Goronoff incessantly as "Maestro." At her New York debut she plays guess what too well to suit Goronoff's touchy ego, so they split and she marries a Pennsylvania farmer who's Almost as good and kind as he is stupid. After a number of obvious events masquerading as developments, one of which has Myra...
...Maestro Leopold Stokowski and wife Gloria were also attracting attention with their music: the tabloid Daily Mirror breathlessly reported that "neighbors have heard loud quarrels and the noise of thrown dishes...