Word: podium
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rehearsal, the musicians of London's Royal Philharmonic Orchestra gaped at the unwonted spectacle of their crustaceous conductor, Sir Thomas Beecham, taking advice and instruction. His adviser, standing next to the podium, was a stumpy, balding little old man in a frayed brown suit. Once, when the little man whispered in Beecham's ear, the conductor stopped, said: "We are reminded that by this time in the work Don Quixote is sadder but wiser...
...broken into his vacation to conduct the première himself. At rehearsal with the NBC Symphony Orchestra, he seemed to be having the time of his life. Don Gillis' new Symphony for Fun was the kind of thing the maestro could let himself go on. On the podium, he swayed, sang, all but strutted a cakewalk. Once the Toscanini temper flared up-when the xylophonist floundered over a particularly tricky passage. In the studio control room, Composer Gillis watched the struggling xylophonist, whispered to a companion: "Poor guy. Doesn't he realize that no one could possibly...
Last night's program might well have been considered a minor triumph for Goldovsky. Of the five scenes offered, two of the most ambitious were directed and conducted entirely by students, while the other three had students at least in the conductor's podium if not in the director's chair...
Last week, Pierino walked briskly on to the stage of Paris' Palais de Chaillot, dressed in a Little Lord Fauntleroyish black velvet jacket, white lace collar, and short pants. The podium had been built up so nine-year-old Pierino could see all of the 70 musicians of the Association des Concerts Lamoureux. He conducted Schubert's Unfinished without a score, and handled it decisively. He was less certain in Beethoven's Fifth-the brasses got away from him in the finale. But he did well enough to touch off 20 minutes of cheers. Pierino took seven...
...ovation that greeted Furtwä1;ngler this week might have been bigger-the audience was willing-but he cut it short. As soon as he reached the podium he raised his arms for silence, launched into his all-Beethoven program. Furtwä1;ngler's performance of the Fifth Symphony, whose first notes had been the Allies' wartime theme, brought down the house. People crowded down the aisles, cheering and calling him back time after time...