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Word: piastro (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ross and the Daily Mirror's Ara Piastre at his heels. While they stared at the crumpled figure in the courtyard, Russian-speaking Reporter Piastre (daughter of Conductor Mishel Piastre) heard her moaning "Ostavte! Ostavte!" (Later, only the Herald Tribune went out of its way to credit Miss Piastro with the translation: "Leave me alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Manhattan Merry-Go-Round | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

...time in following the precedent which he had previously used in his first days in Cleveland, and which had been laid down earlier and even more dramatically by Koussevitsky in his first years in Boston. At any rate, when the smoke cleared, fourteen members of the orchestra, including Michel Piastro, the concertmaster, had been effectively purged, and all efforts to force the Board of Trustees or Rodzinski to re-engage them for another season had, for unknown reasons, weakly faded away. The Philharmonic has, until this year, usually given only a series of 28 concerts during its regular season. When...

Author: By Charles R. Greenhouse, | Title: THE MUSIC BOX | 5/7/1943 | See Source »

Artur Rodzinski, famed conductor, will take over the New York Philharmonic-Symphony orchestra next season. Last week, preparing for the 1943-44 season, Rodzinski fired 14 musicians, including the first fiddle, Mishel Piastro. Service of those fired ranged from one to 34 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Discord | 3/1/1943 | See Source »

...wholesale discharge was a sensation in the music world. Piastro blasted the Symphony Society: ". . . Intrigue . . . politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Discord | 3/1/1943 | See Source »

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