Word: maestro
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...became bitter rivals. As Minister of Mines, Lechin, who is part Arab and part Indian, styled himself a "Trotskyite Communist," turned the 40,000-man miners' union into his private militia, and proceeded to featherbed the nationalized mines with 6,000 unneeded workers. The miners called him "El Maestro"-but the once profitable mines became a shambles, losing money at the rate of $8,500,000 a year. Lechin's miners elected him president of the entire Bolivian Workers Federation. By 1960, too powerful to be ignored any longer, Lechin was made Vice President on the ticket with...
...encores. Leopold Stokowski was hired in the cultural offensive of 1955, and though he greatly improved the orchestra during his 51-year tenure, he also proved himself hopelessly alien to the strange culture of the far west. He called Houston "Hooston," and his chauffeur, in poetic inability to say "Maestro," called the boss "Moscow." When Sir John arrived, things were different. Anglo-Texan friendship was immediately established...
...Austrian Maestro Herbert von Karajan, 55, has long been an a.m. book worm, and now he has caught an early bird. While doing some crack-of-dawn reading in his St. Tropez villa, he heard a noise in his sleeping wife's adjacent bedroom, opened the door and bumped smack into a young burglar. "What are you doing here?" roared the conductor, appassionato. For answer, he got a fortissimo downbeat right in the kisser...
...Graffman, "and I drifted to the back of the hall." Things were better there, but Schonberg resolved once again to change his seat. "My apologies to Graffman," he wrote, "and a promise that I will catch his next recital-from a more favorable location." Taking a cue from the maestro a week later, a colleague on the Times offered three different reviews of the same recital, reporting in from seats N1, D311 and PP106...
Festival Spirit. Tanglewood has been the Boston's summer home for 27 years, and its musical standards have always been as high as the orchestra's. But over the course of Charles Munch's 13-year reign as Boston's maestro, Tanglewood wilted sadly in the August heat...