Word: philadelphia
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...almost a half-century, the sound of the Philadelphia Orchestra under Conductor Eugene Ormandy was one of the most gloriously distinctive in music. Inheriting a spirited ensemble from his flamboyant predecessor, Leopold Stokowski, Ormandy refined it until the strings turned to silk, the woodwinds to amber, the brass to gold. If Ormandy's interpretations of safe repertory standards such as Beethoven and Brahms symphonies were not always individual, the ravishing tonal beauty of his orchestra was often reward enough. "The Philadelphia sound -- it's me!" Ormandy said proudly, and it was less a boast than a statement of fact...
...change. Out went the creamy, homogenized textures Ormandy had favored; in their place came a greater technical precision and attention to style in a vastly widened repertory. Out also went the monogamous relationship Ormandy and the city had enjoyed. Muti, conductor laureate of London's Philharmonia Orchestra, declared that Philadelphia would have to share his services with other leading musical organizations; indeed, later this year he will also become director of Milan's La Scala opera house. Muti even voiced the heretical notion that the orchestra should abandon its historic home, the Academy of Music, and build a larger hall...
...enthusiastically that they are referred to in musical circles, only half jokingly, as "Muti's Moonies." "Muti has been touched by God," says Concertmaster Norman Carol, who has held the post for 20 years. "He has given us all new musical life." Music Critic Daniel Webster of the Philadelphia Inquirer agrees. "Ormandy had an idea of how an orchestra should sound, and he made all music sound the same," he says bluntly. "This orchestra could never play Mozart, Haydn or Beethoven under Ormandy. It always sounded like molasses...
Unlike Bourbeau, a fourth-round pick of the Philadelphia Flyers, Barakett was not drafted by a National Hockey League team. He is now a free agent and can be signed by any club...
...weeks ago Harvard men's basketball coach Peter Roby scribbled the word on a blackboard in the visiting team locker room at the Palestra arena in Philadelphia. His team had just evacuated the court at halftime of the Harvard-Penn game after being embarrassed 39-24 in the opening stanza...