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Another interesting item came later in the evening from the Somerset Hotel, where the band leader, announcing that he was about to read football scores and play college tunes, was greeted by a chorus of groans and "no's" from the cash customers. "That's all right," said the maestro. "I'm not going to talk about Harvard...
Like Toscanini, Steinberg never uses a score. Though his performances lack the Maestro's tuning-fork luster, he conducts with much the same bombastic vigor. To give cues, he waggles his head like an angry steer. At opera rehearsals he brays himself hoarse singing the leading roles stopping occasionally to munch a dry slice of pumpernickel...
...Maestro Benny Goodman, the daddy of big band swing, summed up the plight of his fellow noisemakers: "The trouble is that they just play too damn loud. A guy who is good doesn't have to worry about trends...
...Lombardo, sad-eyed maestro of unhurried dance music, stepped up his tempo and happily raced away with a water-speed title. At Red Bank, N.J., leisure-hour Boatsman Lombardo won the national motorboat sweepstakes. Next: a crack at the Gold Cup in Detroit this Labor...
...Artur Rodzinski, high-strung maestro of the New York Philharmonic, sold the Berkshire Hills farm where he used to raise goats and moved on to a farther retreat near Lake Placid, N.Y. One of the old place's disadvantages: Pilgrims from the Berkshire music festival had been getting in his hair...