Word: maestro
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Members of the Toronto Camera Club harkened humbly, last week, to a visiting and lecturing maestro: Richard Neville Speaight Esq. of London, semi-official photographer to the Court of St. James's. "On one occasion," confided Maestro Speaight amid a hush, "I was obliged to pace the floor for two hours with an infant son* of Princess Mary in my arms before the child stopped crying and enabled me to make a satisfactory portrait...
...entertains old friends, few new ones-and opera singers practically not at all. As conductor he is supreme, can vitalize well-worn music as no other of the day. With him the music is the thing. A dowager soprano once fussed "But, maestro, don't you realize that I'm a star...
...very unfortunate that the maestro should have so prefaced his latest effort. Whatever worth the picture has will suffer disparagement when compared with director's bloated ideals. They needed a Yes-Man in Heaven and God appointed C. B. de Mille...
Harpsichord Mistress Wanda Landowska was soloist last week at a Manhattan concert of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. She tinkled away at a recently composed novelty by Spanish Maestro Manuel de Falla (Concerto for harpsichord, flute, oboe, clarinet, violin, cello), which she had said would be of "austere, aristocratic beauty." All found it muddy; praised her playing of Mozart...
...wrong; that folk art is necessarily good art; that the critic who dares to question folk art commits the unpardonable sin." This is undoubtedly true. Ted Shawn might conceivably do setting-up exercises, claim them as an aboriginal dance, and be hailed has even more of a maestro than...