Word: podium
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...walked onstage, moving crabwise around the pianos, the members of the audience at Manhattan's Town Hall rose in a spontaneous ovation. Igor Stravinsky turned to face them, ducked his head with a shy smile, the light tilting off his glasses. Then he stepped up on the podium to receive a different kind of ovation from four of the U.S.'s leading practitioners of his own art: Composers Lukas Foss, 37, Aaron Copland, 59, Roger Sessions, 62, Samuel Barber, 49. Seated at four grand pianos, two on each side of the stage, the four were assembled to play...
...series of four planned by Columbia Records to display Stravinsky's music. The old man led his forces - in addition to the pianos, four solo singers, a chorus and an assortment of percussion instruments -with a passion and vigor that left his audience breathless. Standing spiderlike on the podium, he raised clenched fists or clawed the air with splayed fingers, setting the hall alive with the violently percussive rhythms, the clipped vocal phrases, the primary colorations that once made his ritualistic evocation of a peasant wedding such a shocking piece of musical theater. But last week's audience...