Word: maestro
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...gladiola-banked Pops podium last week, the silver-maned maestro, who is celebrating his first half-century with the Boston Symphony, proved once more that in a city which demands the best in music, his fizzy Pops concerts are the perfect spring tonic. The formula is familiar: two parts classical and semiclassical to one part popular-plus a dash of the unexpected...
Fiedler puts things together with an unerring knack for creative programing and a repertory of close to a thousand selections from Bach to Chubby Checker. With exuberant ease, the maestro and 90 members from the Bos ton Symphony Orchestra achieve what many of their imitators are still striving for-popularity for Pops...
...unctuous moments on the bandstand; "I love you madly," he will coo, "and the fellows love you madly too." But such lapses do not deter the musician from his work. When 500 fans gathered at Columbia University last month for the Ellington Society's annual tribute to the maestro, the Duke himself appeared to present the musical offering. "I will now rehearse," he said softly, and with that the aging Duke sat down at the piano for an hour of the finest Ellington anyone had heard in years...
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: SYMPHONY NO. 2 (Sir John Barbirolli conducting the Halle Orchestra; Everyman). Sir John, maestro of both the Houston Symphony and the Halle of Manchester, gives a glowing performance of the too-little-heard impressionistic symphony called "The London." Here are pomp and pageantry, cockney airs, the chimes of Big Ben, and a luminous lento movement that the composer called "Bloomsbury Square on a November afternoon." The music also evokes an era; it was completed...
...however, Chávez is a pioneer modernist who seldom lets a setback take him by surprise. He believes that a new work must mature in the minds of maestro, musicians and public. His patience has often been rewarded. In 1928 he became the founder and conductor of Mexico's first major symphony orchestra. Giving free concerts, he taught his musically illiterate audiences the wonders of Bach, Beethoven, Stravinsky, Schoenberg and Chávez. His own early compositions, such as the brilliant, flavorful Sinfonia India, in which indigenous folk tunes were distilled with impressive originality, earned him a reputation...