Word: maestro
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...audiences by conducting one of Enesco's Rumanian Rhapsodies from memory, while Kondrashin had used a printed score. At the top, anyway, the fray was friendly. The two conductors met, joked, and talked about politics. Said the vanquished Kondrashin to the victorious Mehta after the Californians' debut: "Maestro, it was beautiful...
...Chicago Cubs First Baseman Ernie Banks. And Alderman Thomas Rosenberg countered with a proposal to send a statue of Alderman Hoellen to Paris' redlit Pigalle. Mused the Chicago Sun-Times: "Picasso himself must be the most surprised to find his art controversial today. It should make the old maestro feel young again...
...Train, Ellington's theme song. Excusing himself from the table, the Duke moved into the motorman's seat at the piano, got the collegians home without missing a signal. What did he think of the young band? asked the King. "I wish it were mine," deadpanned the maestro...
...sang Happy Birthday to Mrs. Rubin, with Leopold Stokowslci, 85, conducting. It was Softball of the Absurd, as presented in Manhattan's Central Park by the male (Wolf's Gang) and the female (Beethoven's Bunnies) members of Stoky's American Symphony Orchestra. Observed the maestro, who played guest of honor: "It certainly brings out a different side of their personalities from what I see in Carnegie Hall...
...rehearsals rather than at a concert. In the case of Arturo Toscanini, not only the keys to his greatness but also some of his finest performances were to be heard at rehearsals. "Any body who missed them, missed Toscanini," says Violist Nicolas Moldavan, who played under the maestro in the NBC Symphony. "That was where there were the moments of beauty and intensity that only Toscanini could achieve...