Word: monteux
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...Pierre Monteux clambered to the podium and picked up his baton; the orchestra swung into Strauss's Die Fledermaus. He romped them through an Enesco Rumanian Rhapsody and Ravel's Bolero, turned over his baton to a guest conductor. Then the fun & games began...
While the balcony guests ate ice-cream sandwiches, the downstairs crowd ate Surprise Monteux, a concoction of Danish spongecake, French vanilla bisque, raspberry melba sauce and chopped walnuts sprinkled with brandy. It was no surprise to Gourmet Monteux himself; he had had a sample in advance, and some had even been air-expressed to friends.* But he forked away with a will (see cut). Said "he: "Peach melba, pah! Nobody will talk about it again...
...Bozo. When it was all over, Conductor Monteux admitted the tombola had been fun, "but not musique sérieuse." He was already thinking about the Beethoven cycle he will conduct next month: "Now that is sérieux, but not so sérieux as to frighten. Beethoven is not a bore...
...Franciscans were already thinking about something else, too. The tombola was just a warmup for a bigger doing next year. Monteux calls it "a sort of celebration of my 15th year in San Francisco and my 75th year in the world...
...Among the recipients: Arturo Toscanini, Serge Koussevitzky, Leopold Stokowski, Bruno Walter, George Szell, Eduard van Beinum in Amsterdam, Sir Thomas Beecham in London, Pierre's son Jean Monteux in Paris...