Word: maestro
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...blatant strains of "Minnie the Moocher" faded into memories, there was a bustle backstage and the maestro of the Hi De Ho strode into his dressing room. His valet, a self-styled "secretary," was taken aback to find before him the CRIMSON reporter whom he had hoped to shunt aside for the last three days, with ominous threats and dark leers...
...coast-to-coast broad casting network. I have saved another article appearing under Music. It is entitled "Engineers to the Fore" (TIME, March 27, 1933) and in it you pay your respects to men of my profession, broadcast engineers. You are most kind. Your most recent article about Maestro Toscanini is indeed a reading thrill and it is a great tribute to a great genius. It upholds TIME'S unprecedented standard of brief, newsy and cleverly-written articles. ROBERT M. BROCKWAY Chicago...
Commissioned last December from Maestro Don Lorenzo Perosi, the mass was sung last week by the famed Sistine Choir which was increased to 100 voices. In the musical sections surrounding this great central act of Roman Catholic faith, such as the Kyrie Eleison, Gloria, Credo, and Agnus Dei, the choir divided, one part taking the melody, the other singing as if in orchestral accompaniment. To assist at this mass with Pius XI as celebrant, 70,000 people jampacked St. Peter's. Among them were the King & Queen of Siam, the Crown Prince of Italy, 20 other European princes...
...little bows, his left hand on his hip, his baton tapping smartly on the nearest violin stand and the audience was still, ready for another Toscanini miracle. For a second he closed his eyes. Then his baton cut sharply into the air. First passage was for the violins. The Maestro's stick seemed suddenly to become a violin bow playing tenderly across imaginary strings. His left hand molded phrases, shot up like a policeman's warning to keep the pianissimos. Most conductors make an elaborate show of signaling to the different players, whipping up climaxes. Toscanini had done...
...performances planned for April 15, 22 and 29 should do as well. Toscanini's greatest admirers wish that he had Koussevitzky's skill at program-making, that he did not lavish so much of his genius on mediocre scores by his countrymen. But no criticism touches the Maestro so long as he feels that he is faithful to a composer's intention. Once he has made a decision nothing can budge him. He took a beating in Bologna three years ago rather than play the Fascist Hymn at what seemed to him an inappropriate occasion. No coaxing...