Word: maestro
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...issues that cause people to go out there and vote are the conservative issues: buses, taxes, abortion, defense," said Viguerie, 52, the direct mail maestro who founded the Conservative Digest...
...group of outsiders -- the ones behind the scenes and the ones gazing at the screen -- fed each other's good fortune. The audience made the filmmakers rich and famous; in return, movie people taught moviegoers, in the U.S. and all over the world, how to be Americans. When Film Maestro Federico Fellini was in New York City last month to receive tribute from the Film Society of Lincoln Center, he recalled the spell American movies cast over his provincial Italian boyhood in the 1920s: "I saw that there existed another way of life, a land of wide open spaces...
...keyboard with his nose. Before a performance of the Brahms D minor piano concerto, Conductor Leonard Bernstein turned to the audience and made a short speech, dissociating himself from his soloist's unorthodox view of the piece. At his Cleveland Orchestra debut in 1957, he tangled with the irascible maestro George Szell over his use of the soft pedal in a Beethoven concerto; Szell never performed with him after that, but saluted: "That nut's a genius...
...announced that Christoph von Dohnányi would become its new music director beginning this season, he seemed an unlikely choice. Christoph von who? The German-born conductor, 55, grandson of Hungarian Composer Ernst von Dohnányi, had made his career in Germany not principally as an orchestral maestro but as an opera conductor and administrator, most recently at the Hamburg State Opera. He had a reputation as a 20th century music specialist, a distinction that has little appeal at the American box office. By contrast, the Cleveland Orchestra is one of the proudest in the land. George Szell...
DIED. Eduardo De Filippo, 84, Italian actor, director, playwright and maestro of the still active dialect theater of Naples, whose boisterous, sentimental tragicomedies, including Millionaire Naples (1945), Filumena Marturano (1946) and Inner Voices (1948), celebrated the earthy Neapolitan zest for life; of kidney failure; in Rome. Two of his screenplays, a segment of Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963), and Marriage-Italian Style (1964), adapted from Filumena, both starring Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni and directed by Vittorio De Sica, were among Italy's funniest film comedies of the 1960s...