Word: maestro
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Sophomore driving maestro Glenn Alexander led the Harvard charge with an eight over par 79. Alexander was even par at the turn, but a late-round rain shower left his back nine score flooded with high numbers, as the Quincy House resident lost eight shots to par in the final seven holes...
What finer homage to Pianist Arthur Rubinstein on reaching 92? For 17 hours Radio France broadcast Rubinstein's greatest performances, followed by a live concert at Paris' Theatre des Champs Élysées programmed by the maestro himself. Age and approaching blindness apart, Rubinstein was well up to the celebration. "Composing a concert is like composing a menu," he announced, explaining his choices of Debussy, Bach, Rachmaninoff, Mozart and Schubert. "I believe in musical digestion. If you start with light pieces and play a 45-minute sonata after the interlude, it's like starting dinner with...
...author of Crazy Like a Fox and Chicken Inspector No. 23 and the maestro of words such as wattles and dottle, boffin and horripilating was surely up to the challenge. Sidney Joseph Perelman, 74, faced the Chinese author of a drama titled We Will Always Remember Our Beloved Premier Chou En-Lai at a literary luncheon in Peking...
...sardonic relish in that. It was his revenge on an art world that he regarded as corrupt from first to last. Nevertheless, nothing would stop him from painting. He was, at the last, a model of misapplied industry. But the young De Chirico was a master, as the old maestro was not. Every square or colonnade in the world now looks different because...
...Detroit Symphony needed someone who "could turn the orchestra around" when they picked Dorati. He has wasted no time planning several festivals, an international tour and a batch of recordings. "Detroit had not traveled much and had made no recordings in well over a decade," says the maestro. "I am the archenemy of that kind of routine." Dorati is an old-school, tremendously versatile conductor whose artistic innovations are matched by his administrative skill. "Mr. Dorati could even run General Motors," says President Robert Semple. That is the ultimate Detroit accolade...