Word: podium
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...biggest advantages is that a costly or difficult laboratory demonstration can be done once, or erased and repeated until it is perfected, then magnified so that any student near a TV screen can see it clearly- an advantage previously limited to students nearest the professor's podium. Thus Colorado State uses 200 tapes in 23 of its anatomy courses. Students on many campuses can check out a tape and view it in a personal study carrel in order to catch a lecture they missed or review it for an exam...
...maintain its pipeline to the immortals, the orchestra employs only Austrians. Its members' built-in self-assur ance serves a dual function. On the one hand, this guarantees a standard of performance for which the men themselves will fight, no matter who is on the podium. On the other, it can create a special kind of psychological hell for whoever dares to mount that podium...
Democratic Anarchy. Not surprisingly, the orchestra runs itself, choosing its managerial board from within its ranks and voting its conductors on or off the podium at will. It has 154 playing personnel, all of whom are actually employed by the Austrian government as musicians for the Vienna State Opera. They decide among themselves which members are to get together in their so-called spare time to give ten pairs of concerts as the Vienna Philharmonic, and which will make up the opera orchestra on which nights. This kind of shifting personnel might seem like a mindless...
Barenboim's quest for "the totality of the thing" has led him from the piano to the conductor's podium, which now accounts for a quarter of his more than 100 annual bookings. When the Israel Philharmonic went on to Cleveland last week, he led it from the piano in a smoothly flowing performance of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1, then stood up to conduct Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 with crisp authority. Such experience helps him as a pianist, he says, because "piano music is so symphonic. The piano is a neutral-sounding instrument...
With the baseball season in full swing, there is nothing particularly noteworthy about a southpaw on the mound. A southpaw on the podium, however, is another matter. And this rare breed, in the person of Joel Lazar, is what confronted the eighty players and three dozen singers assembled on the Sanders stage last evening. Yet, despite the brevity of their acquaintance with him, those who were bowing and blowing and crowing seemed to have readily overcome being nonplussed by a baton brandished in the let hand...