Word: musicians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Maestro Toscanini scooted onstage, music-lovers in the peanut galleries leaned over the rails to hiss the buzz-buzz in the parquet into silence. Then, in the still, warm, muggy air (two women in the crowded audience fainted), they listened for three hours to the romantic music of Poet-Musician Arrigo Boito, whom all Milan was honoring on the 30th anniversary of his death...
...took was a little imagination, and an amateur's interest in archeology. One day last fall Willy Stahl, Los Angeles musician and painter, went into the Mojave Desert 180 miles northeast of Los Angeles and tried to guess where he would have settled, had he been a Pinto Man living 10,000 years...
...biggest musical event in Vienna since the war: after a ten-year exile, Vienna's favorite living musician had come home...
...oboe soloist in the Handel work and the most distinguished performer in the last movement of Mozart's Divertimento in D Major, Wade Fite certainly deserves high praise. He is definitely a musician of great ability, and in both works he gave encouragement and support to the orchestra...
Scrupulously honest, he detects sham of all kinds instantly. Years ago, after Richard Strauss had asked him to conduct the first performance of his Salome, then gave it to another conductor, Toscanini went all the way from Milan to Vienna to tell him, "Strauss, as a musician I take my hat off to you; as a man [Toscanini here went through a furious pantomime of a man clomping on hats repeatedly] I put on twelve hats...