Word: maestro
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...America, he has been known primarily for his 23 years as a guest conductor with the Chicago Symphony. Los Angeles won him by offering freedom from paper work, a lighter-than-usual five-month load, and a blank check. A tall, slim, aristocratic man, Giulini is the rare maestro who is truly loved by his musicians. They may grumble about his perfectionism or his occasionally erratic tempi. But, says Victor Aitay, Chicago's co-concertmaster, "he approaches music as a religion, like the devoted Catholic he is. He feels his be lief so convincingly that it seems...
...post as music director of the Frankfurt Opera in 1933. He moved on to Palestine, where he recruited an orchestra in Tel Aviv, and then to the U.S., where he became Arturo Toscanini's assistant at the NBC Symphony. In Pittsburgh, Steinberg was known as a disciplined maestro of self-effacing humor whose camaraderie with his musicians helped bring out their best talents...
...musical customs in New York City. Three or four times a year, Charlotte Bergen, a wealthy recluse from Bernardsville, N.J., rents Carnegie Hall and conducts a free concert. She hires the American Symphony Orchestra and various soloists, gets out her 2-ft.-long baton and mounts the podium as maestro for the day-paying some $40,000 for the Mittyesque experience. She has no formal training in conducting. Also she is a frail woman of 81 encumbered with a heavy back brace...
...come home with the Boston Symphony Orchestra was for so long the biggest dream of my life," says Japanese-born Seiji Ozawa. On home turf at last with the orchestra, Maestro Ozawa enlivened the concert tour by ordering up a traditional, all-forks-barred banquet and decreeing: "Anyone who refuses to wear a kimono will not be invited." Delightedly, the eminent musicians swapped tails for robes. Then, they watched wide-eyed as their kinetic conductor swatted open a keg of sake with a lusty downbeat from a hammer. When the festivities were over, one veteran B.S.O. member opined: "We didn...
...invitation to play in the Carter White House came soon after the Inauguration, but Pianist Vladimir Horowitz took a rain check. For his second stint at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue (he first played there in 1931 for Herbert Hoover), the maestro wanted to celebrate the 50th anniversary of his U.S. debut. And so he did, last week, thundering out fortissimi to an audience packed with the likes of Isaac Stern, Andrés Segovia and Mstislav Rostropovich. Carter, recalling the cherished Horowitz recording he had as a midshipman, said of his guest artist: "A true national treasure...