Word: playe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once, when Toscanini was conducting the orchestra, he noticed that Katims was not sitting in the first violist's chair. He asked why, and was told that Katims was off conducting elsewhere. "Why should anyone want to wave a stick when he can play the viola like that?" said Toscanini. "Anyone can wave a stick...
...opera was dreadful. Festival authorities, however, quickly announced that Klemperer "had found the ardors of conducting too strenuous; he has gone to Switzerland to recuperate." They recalled Klemperer's physical troubles after a brain operation years ago (TIME, Aug. 5, 1946); he is still partially paralyzed, and can play the piano only with his left hand. Yet Klemperer conducted a concert in Interlaken two days after walking out of the rehearsal, and he is scheduled to return to Salzburg to conduct a Mahler symphony this week...
Alabama's state senate tied a string to its annual appropriations for the University of Alabama and Alabama Polytechnic Institute (Auburn). It ordered the two schools to play each other at football next year or do without state funds. There has been no Alabama-Auburn football game since a free-for-all after a game 40 years...
...registration list will be kept open for B-School students and tardy College men throughout Monday and Tuesday, and match play will carry on from there until the finals--one week later--on August...
Although entries is the University championship tennis tournament were originally slated to close today with the first round of play starting tomorrow, in all likelihood the slats will have to be kept open until next Monday, when the Business School returns from a week-long recess...