Word: podium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...highlight of the concert, and one of the highlights of the whole season, was luminous performance of excerpts from the Messiah. Russell Stanger, who continues to gain poise and authority on the podium, did a masterful job of keeping everyone in line. The orchestra, despite the absence of several of its best players, sounded much better than last time. Part of the success must go to concert-master Paul Revitt 1G, who worked hard and kept the whole violin section in line...
Several of his "boys" went over to the mike and attacked the evangelists. The crowd surged over and fighting broke out. The more rational element in the mob gained the upper hand, and soon restored order. But during the entire scene, Feeney merely stood on his podium and grinned impishly. He later commented how "wonderfully my boys help...
...like a real concert. Pierre Monteux walked slowly to the podium, acknowledged the applause, and began conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra in a program of Wagner and Debussy. Only the informality of the orchestra members, the smallness of the crowd, and the infrequent interruptions by Monteux showed that this was just a rehearsal...
...machine-like view one usually gets of an orchestra. Watching them chatting among themselves and pencil-marking their scores, one can appreciate them as human beings. Unfortunately, the audience could not hear most of Monteux's remarks. Perhaps next time a microphone will be placed somewhere near the podium...
Silent Laughter. Inside the meeting place of the General Assembly, after fondling the ruffled dove for photographers, Andrei Vishinsky gave the bird back to an aide, strode up to the speaker's podium to eat some crow. No one, including his bosses in Moscow, had been much amused by his laughing dismissal of the West's disarmament proposals the week before. In Pravda's account of the speech, the laughed-all-night passage was cut out. Vishinsky prefaced his second try by trying to minimize his first: "I merely made some cursory remarks at the time...