Word: podium
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years as music director of the New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein, 42, has suffered some critical lumps (too much globetrotting, excessive body English on the podium), but ticket sales have been the highest in history. Last week the grateful symphony expressed its appreciation by giving the versatile virtuoso a new seven-year contract-its longest since the turn of the century...
...explained later in Choral Conducting, rehearsals were the key to the Club's quality and to his educational aims. A short, strongly built man, he moved swiftly but unostentatiously on the podium, evoking the response he wanted rather by an expressive face and pair of hands than by the discursiveness he often condemned in conductors. Davison always believed that music could speak for itself and that explanation of contrapuntal technique or rhapsodizing on Schubert only frustrated that desire to sing which is natural to a well-trained chorus...
...inauguration speech was one of the best ever given in the history of the country. One cannot say the same thing about the prayers that preceded it-especially the first one, which was too long and seemed to be more like a speech than a prayer. No wonder the podium caught fire...
...Britons wheezing and snuffling through the midwinter vapors, Conductor Sir John Barbirolli, who plans to commute transatlantically between the Houston Symphony and the Hallé Orchestra of Manchester, prescribed his podium-tested cold cure: "Put on two pullovers. Stand on a chair. Turn the wireless onto a symphony concert and conduct like mad with a poker or pencil for an hour or so. The cold, I guarantee, will have vanished by the last movement." A comparative youngster in a profession noted for longevity, Sir John, 61, who is inclined to share his wisdom with everybody, freely explained the secret...
...problem with conductors is that they seem to live such a long time.* For a young man on the way up, there rarely seems to be a vacant podium at the top. But lately, three comparative youngsters have won major successes in Europe...