Word: podium
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ALBANY is a $100 million showplace campus going up on the 350-acre site of a former country club. Architect Edward Durell Stone has designed four 23-story dormitory towers, each overlooking its own one-story "academic podium" containing classrooms, labs, student lounge and auditorium. The quad system is supposed to let Albany handle its planned 7,500 students, yet retain a collegiate atmosphere. The school-which evolved from a 121-year-old teachers college-is strongest in its community-service-oriented graduate schools of public affairs, social welfare and criminal justice...
...Installed beneath the stage, the air-conditioning unit cools the maestro by blowing air through holes in the floor of the podium...
...used to say that he wanted to die on the podium. "But that would be too embarrassing for the concertmaster. He would have to carry me off the stage. Now I say that I would like to die in my dressing room just after giving the greatest conducting performance of my life...
Once he mounts his specially air-conditioned podium,* he rivets his cobalt-blue gaze on the musicians and sweeps into the music with a concentration so intense that he likes to think it hypnotic. He is thickset and stubby (5 ft. 5 in.), but he makes up for his small stature with big gestures. At one rehearsal Ormandy swung his fist down for a crescendo and accidentally knocked out the orchestra's librarian, who happened to be standing too close...
...concert tour, but was stranded when the promoters went bankrupt. Literally down to his last nickel, he joined the fiddle section of Manhattan's Capitol Theater orchestra. Five days later, when the conductor suddenly took ill 15 minutes before showtime, Ormandy was thrust onto the podium for the first time because, naturally, he was the only musician who knew Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony by heart. Presto! "I discovered a new instrument, richer and fuller than the violin-the orchestra...