Word: podium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...player pays about four times as much for his scratchy grind music as he would for live symphonic music. And that is not all, reported Black. If the orchestra, like a jukebox, should stop playing every 2¼ minutes, "the student would have to make 53 trips to the podium during the symphony season and drop a nickel in [Conductor William] Steinberg to get the orchestra started again...
Aaron Copland is a much better composer than conductor. On the podium he seemed awkward and uncertain, and I don't know how the orchestra was ever able to follow his obscure beat. But his music, fresh and invigorating, gave ample proof that he is one of the five or six really significant composers in the United States today. Unlike most of his contemporaries, Copland concerns himself with melodies per se; his compositions usually contain several good tunes, but not much depth of feeling...
...tirades again. Moreover, in midsummer came more bad news: the death of his wife Carla, 73, who had been his caretaker and counselor for 54 years. His friends feared he was through. They misjudged their man. Last week the old Arturo Toscanini was back on his podium-working with the dedication of a man fortified by grief. His wife's death has left him little to live for but his music...
...skin is pink, his eye is clear. The rasp-but not the power-is missing from his voice. His knee seems better, too. A safety railing was installed at the back of his podium last year, but when he gripped it at all in rehearsals last week, it was mostly to shake it with temperamental rage-that is, when the gravity of the crime did not actually set him jumping up & down with both feet...
...music that poured from radio and television loudspeakers at week's end, as Arturo Toscanini began his 14th NBC season, bore little trace of the loneliness he feels. As ever, once on the podium, he was concerned only with the feelings Brahms put into his Symphony No. 1 and Weber into his Euryanthe Overture. At 84, Toscanini projected those feelings with a power, clarity and precision no other living conductor can match...