Word: podium
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slippers and a pipe, but Violinist Zino Francescatti acted very much at home. Instead of a fireplace, however, he had the audience in Carnegie Hall in front of him last week, and the Philadelphia Orchestra behind him. When he wasn't fiddling, he lolled comfortably near the podium, gestured familiarly to Conductor Eugene Ormandy, even stage-whispered to him during the concerto. "That was pretty good;" he would say to Ormandy, or "We got it that time...
Professor Prosser seemed to sense that he "was going to be served with a summons," said Poindexter, "and he knew about my coming marriage. So he called me up to the podium and gave me $5 'for a wedding gift'," and the constable gave Prosser the snmmons...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Prelude and Allegro by Couperin-Milhaud; Krenek's Symphony No. 4; Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 in B Flat Minor. Clifford Curzon at the piano, Dimitri Mitropoulos on the podium...
...Clubs will alternate for most of the program and then get together to sing "Old Nassau," "Fair Harvard" and an American folk song. G. Wallace Woodworth '24, professor of Music, will conduct the Harvard singers, sharing the podium with Princetonian J. Merrill Knapp...
...audience in the crowded old Caracas Municipal Theater began to clap and whistle. At 9:45 the red curtain finally went up. Tall, mustachioed old Maestro Vicente Emilio Sojo bowed from the podium, turned and led his 76 musicians in Hail the Brave People, Venezuela's national anthem. The first concert of the revitalized Orquesta Sinfónica de Venezuela (founded 1930) was off to a trumpeting start...