Word: podium
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...combined. Now 82. Stolz is the grand old man of operetta, the sole survivor of the golden age of popular Viennese music (1910-25). At Austria's open-air amphitheater on Lake Constance last week, Old Composer Stolz was still at work. Tall and gaunt, he mounted the podium and led the orchestra into a performance of Trauminsel (Isle of Dreams). It was his 43rd full-length operetta, and it was pure Viennese delight...
After 160 melodious minutes, the old man on the podium turned to acknowledge the gusty applause. The locale of Trauminsel may have been Mexico and the sets Utopian, but no one who had ever heard a Viennese waltz could mistake the theme-a simple case, as Stolz himself put it in the title of his most famous operetta, of Two Hearts in Three-Quarter Time...
...conductor appeared transformed by the music. His pudgy body swayed on the podium; his moon face was pop-eyed with pleasure. Occasionally, listeners close to the stage could hear him snort with excitement. At Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium, Conductor Josef Krips gave agile proof that he is descended from a long line of conductors of the Viennese school, a special breed that has all but disappeared from the world's concert halls, a line that once rang with such great names as Gustav Mahler, Felix Weingartner (Krips's teacher), Franz Schalk and Bruno Walter. What those artists...
Full of beans a top a San Francisco podium, Boston Pops Conductor Arthur Fiedler, 67, unwound a 96-piece orchestra in his own three-minute baroque version of The Twist. The white-maned maestro played the score "tempo a la Chubby Checker" after listening to one of the tubby twister's records and checking it with a metronome. Afterward, at a local nightclub to gyre and gimbal a bit himself, Fiedler adjudged the dance craze: "It's authentic primitive Americana, not from Siberia or Laos, I don't think it's physically unattractive either...
Volpe started the rally with a sprint across the stage to the speaker's podium. "The Republican Party is on the Go!" he shouted. "We are on the Go until nexy November and then will come a smashing Republican victory...