Word: maestro
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...Scala orchestra for his concert this week, confessed he was "frightened," called it off till the next day. "I am not worried about the public, which leaves me quite indifferent," he explained. "It is the orchestra. . . . It is 16 years since I last saw them. . . ." Next day the maestro was back in shape, shouted, stamped, gave a workman holy Ned for whistling...
Ferde Grofé: Grand Canyon Suite (NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini conducting; Victor, 8 sides). One of the maestro's favorites, much to the consternation of highbrows who wish he wouldn't bother. He gives it the works. Performance: excellent...
Then daughter Gloria, in Mexico with her silver-haired maestro (a man old enough to be her father), chose to suggest that her mother work for a living, and told the press what she was doing with her mother's former allowance of $21,000 a year. She was giving it to blind, homeless, needy children, "because I had an unhappy childhood." Cried Mrs. Vanderbilt: "Disgraceful...
...pianist, shaved & bathed in cold water for a few days, then took action against his Los Angeles plumber, who had his hot-water heater. The plumber, charged Iturbi, hadn't carried out a repair job as promised, but demanded $50 before he would return the heater. The chattering maestro sued for $3,000 damages...
Artur Rodzinski, maestro of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, master fully shushed a publicity agent who wanted him to name the world's ten greatest musical works. Said Rodzinski: let somebody determine what ten works audiences "would not like to hear under any circumstances, even if they were on a lonesome island in the mid-Pacific for ten years and had no chance of hearing a sound." He waited in happy silence...