Word: podium
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last year she went off-Broadway to conduct a pair of musicals, and finally got her break two months ago when Conductor-Producer Greene decided to step down from Music Man's podium. So far, not a peep of complaint has been heard from her 24-piece orchestra. "You know," said one musician, "this is the first time I ever watched a conductor...
Conductor Davis, who will make his first appearance in the U.S. next December with the Minneapolis Symphony, seems to lack only one major podium qualification: a king-sized ego. Not long ago, at the completion of a concert in London's Royal Festival Hall, Davis won an ovation from the audience. He looked at his orchestra, flabbergasted. "This is ridiculous!" said he, and left the stage...
Citation: "You are described as a life-long allegro, a nest of atoms in a cyclotron, a leaky electric eel, a Mickey Mantle of music (three years ago, that was), a human gyroscope, Presley of the podium, our musical Dick Tracy...
When he steps from the podium next season after leading the Seattle Symphony in the premiere of a piano concerto by Leon Kirchner, Conductor Milton Katims will stop at' the Orpheum movie theater. There, before an audience of symphony patrons, he will engage the soloist of the evening, Pianist Leon Fleisher, in a three-game pingpong match. Katims may lose, for Fleisher has a widely feared forehand slam, but he expects to collect about $10,000 from spectators for the symphony's sustaining fund...
...Leopold Stokowski, 78, closed out his fifth season as conductor of the Houston Symphony by praising Manager Thomas Johnson as "a man who can get along with a difficult conductor like me," then announced that he will leave his Texas podium next year. Generally liked in Houston, Stokowski was occasionally criticized, first for pushing too many modern works, then for moving in the opposite direction and pandering to the city's "roast beef appetite." Nevertheless, the city got a good financial return on Stokowski's reported $35,000 annual salary: ticket sales increased 86%. So far, no successor...