Word: maestro
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...burly figure standing calmly on the podium of a darkened opera house pit bears little resemblance to the conventionally glamorous image of a famous conductor. At 205 Ibs. and standing less than 5 ft. 10 in., he is built more like a stagehand than an aristocratic maestro, and his round face, capped by a corona of curly hair, is a world away from the suave image of a Leonard Bernstein. Yet as his baton comes slashing down with swift, chopping strokes, he is abruptly transformed into a figure of grace. Cuing the orchestra, effortlessly guiding singers through an opera...
...often lets the sound of the orchestra overwhelm the singers, swamping them amid Wagnerian brass fortissimos or with the urgent sweep of passionate Verdian strings. Even the Met orchestra musicians, who are generally enthusiastic about their conductor, complain. Sometimes after a performance they leave informal, anonymous critiques: "Too loud, Maestro." "Much too slow." "Much too fast...
...took more than one man or one company, of course, to turn the personal computer into the engine that is powering a new communications revolution. Apple's Steve Jobs is the most famous maestro of the micro, but other personalities played key roles in bringing about the Year of the Machine...
Interviewer: Maestro, the Metropolitan Opera has unveiled Sir Peter Hall's new production of your opera Macbeth, starring Baritone Sherrill Milnes and Soprano Renata Scotto. When the revised version of Macbeth flopped in Paris in 1865, you were criticized for your treatment of Shakespeare. What attracted you to the play...
...size of a shriveled cello. He can hear the harmony of the spheres, and his rhythm is out of this world. So E.T. seemed to be marching to the beat of an interstellar drummer when he waddled onto the stage of the Hollywood Bowl, in a surprise appearance after Maestro John Williams conducted the theme from E.T. Williams, 50, who composed the score for E. T. as well as for Star Wars, graciously shook hands with the world's most familiar otherworldly character (animated on this occasion by a midget within). The audience went wild. Who knows...