Word: patronizer
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...returned to the U.S. at 24, he was the finest of all U.S. cellists and one of the half-dozen best in the world. But Cellist Wallenstein stuck to orchestra playing, played for seven years with the New York Philharmonic-Symphony as first cellist for his intimate friend and patron, Arturo Toscanini. When Toscanini resigned from the Philharmonic in 1936, Wallenstein resigned...
...Patron saint of gunners, Santa Barbara revealed her Christianity by cutting three windows (signifying the Holy Trinity) in a bathhouse her rich, heathen father had built for her. So she was sentenced to death, and her father himself beheaded her. On his way home he was killed by lightning (Heaven's artillery). Santa Barbara is also the patron of miners and persons caught in thunderstorms and fires...
Cobb has the knack of keeping one eye on a temperamental diner, one on the ledger. As a showman, he is beyond surprise. To one eccentric but steady patron, Bob Cobb's waiters always served, without blinking, a dish of spongecake, smothered in catsup. Says President Cobb, reminiscently: "You can do nearly anything you want with the public...
...scarcely dry on the contract between U.S. Rubber and the New York Philharmonic-Symphony (TIME, May 17) when another great company decided to play patron to another great orchestra. Following Rubber's nationwide Sunday hookup (CBS, 3 p.m., E.W.T.), General Motors will sponsor another national Sunday concert, by the NBC Symphony (NBC, 5 p.m., E.W.T.). The cost to G.M. for a year is about the same as that to Rubber-around...
This deal still left two of the "big four" U.S. orchestras on a sustaining program basis: the Boston Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra. But musicians viewed the Rubber and Motors patronage as a portentous symptom. In the postwar world, industry might replace private wealth as music's chief patron, might even succeed in putting fine concert music and opera on a paying basis...