Word: panning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...growing parade of musicians. Next morning almost the whole Peking Philharmonic showed up at the airport to say goodbye with gifts and mementos. Several private farewells ended in tears. Ozawa led his troops onto the 747. The final glimpse of the Americans must have made the Peking players smile. Pan Am printed the name CHINA CLIPPER on the sides in Chinese characters but, language misunderstandings being what they are, the sign read CHINA SCISSORS...
Seiji Ozawa dreams big. "I am Japanese," he says. "But I was born in China. Somehow I became a Western musician. My dream has been to come to China, me and the Boston Symphony, to play and teach and learn." Last week a Pan Am 747 with 157 people and 35,000 Ibs. of baggage, musical instruments and equipment touched down in Shanghai. B.S.O. Conductor Ozawa hurled himself forward to meet the weary orchestra, which he had preceded into the country...
...drew fewer than 50 people. In all the studios the air was thick with concentration. Oboist Ralph Gomberg counseled one jittery student: "You don't hear the notes if you play it too fast." Flutist Senwick Smith used one phrase in a piece called The Flute of Pan to try to loose some spontaneity in his cautious players. "Do you know who Pan is?" he asked. They did not; he explained...
...better places do not curdle the diner's juices with Tin Pan Aloha plunk-plunk music. Some of the most memorable songs are English or American ballads rendered in Hawaiian to a Hawaiian beat; The Battle Hymn of the Republic sounds terrific that way. Many other chants have their island-English versions, to wit: The Twelve Days of Christmas, in which "my tutu [grannie] give to me one mynah bird in one papaya tree, two coconut, three dried squid, four flower lei, five fat pig, six hula lesson, seven shrimp as wimming, eight ukulele, nine pound...
...outfitting PSA stewardesses in tangerine-colored hot pants. When PSA balked at his plan to put out an in-flight magazine, he formed East/West Network, Inc. Butler gradually picked up other clients, and today the Los Angeles-based firm publishes magazines for PSA, Allegheny, Continental, Eastern, Hughes Airwest, Ozark, Pan Am, Southern, Texas International and United.* East/West figures that last year a total of 10 million passengers read the magazines each month. Combined revenues were $20 million, and profits were about $2 million...