Word: maestro
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...break came on an October night in 1969 at New York's Philharmonic Hall. It was not a fracture that disabled the 72-year-old Steinberg but sudden fatigue. Thomas, not yet 25, was standing in the wings when the maestro walked offstage just before the intermission and told his assistant to get out there and finish the concert. Thomas proceeded to take the orchestra through a Starer concerto and Till Eulenspiegel without a slip, and the critics flipped. By 1972 he was the Boston's principal guest conductor and had his own orchestra, the Buffalo Philharmonic...
...PROFILE: Maestro Michael Tilson Thomas...
With cinematic flourish, Dino De Laurentiis would jump up from his plate of spaghetti at the boardroom table, wave his cook aside and bolt into the company's kitchen. Nobody, he told his guests, could make cappuccino like the maestro himself! As he spoke, Hollywood's flashiest independent producer would secretly hit the "start" button on an ordinary cappuccino machine. He would then present his charmed visitors with cupfuls of "Dino's special cappuccino -- the best...
...boast that his eldest grandson, at age seven, wags a national flag at Sajudis meetings. In the grand tradition of the Landsbergis family, the boy, he said, "feels himself a fighter for Lithuania." As Landsbergis matches Mikhail Gorbachev wit for wit, Sajudis colleagues watch the man they affectionately call "maestro" with admiration and fascination. "He is a superb chess player," says Jurate Gustaite, a teacher at the Conservatory. "I have been reminded of that a lot lately as I watch him maneuver so deftly, always thinking several steps ahead...
...will not lack work opportunities anytime soon. Covent Garden is on the telephone, pleading that she not cancel a new La Sonnambula because the agreed-upon director has just withdrawn. Italian maestro Riccardo Chailly, who is on her very short list of preferred conductors, wants her for Rossini's The Turk in Italy, not exactly on opera's hit parade, but that does not matter to Anderson. Major new productions have been lined up in Chicago (finally, perhaps, a satisfying Lucia) and San Francisco (La Sonnambula), as well as a new Semiramide next season...