Word: podium
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the demonstrators failed to quiet down, Cox assumed the podium and told the audience, "You have the power at any moment to disrupt this meeting at any time. But will you please let me speak...
...band performed a newly composed tribute to the Governor, Hope for the Common Man. Inside the small antebellum legislative chamber, the restless crowd quieted to a tense hush. At the main entrance, George Wallace appeared in his wheelchair, his wife Cornelia walking with him. When he reached the podium, Wallace lifted himself up with no visible effort. His chin thrust forward, flashing a small, almost contemptuous smile, he showed that he could stand without leaning on his hands by raising his arms-ostensibly to shoot his cuffs. The audience exploded in a shouting, whistling, foot-stomping salute. A few country...
Often, though, his hours on the podium are indeed a struggle-in unexpected ways. The years of conducting with arms carried high in tension, or head held tilted back to watch his performers on operatic nights, have produced extensive muscle damage to Solti's shoulders and neck. If he sometimes does a spectacular 180° leap from the violins way off on the left to the double basses on the right, it is because he has to. "I can not move my head more than a few inches to the left or right without turning my body," he says...
...podium, Solti defies a current vogue: he regularly conducts from a score. That any number of young and not-so-young conductors think they must conduct from memory, he blames on Toscanini: "Why did Toscanini conduct from memory? Because he was nearsighted. Of course, he had that fabulous memory, but that wasn't really why he never used a score. Today we have an entire generation of young conductors who think they must conduct from memory-all because Toscanini was nearsighted. It is total lunacy...
Though spectacular on the podium, he is just plain Georg in real life. Where Karajan tools around in a flashy sports car, Solti drives a Volvo sedan. Where Bernstein emerges from a concert in a flowing cape, Solti strolls out in a faded turtleneck. He prefers mineral water to wine, and his daily drink is usually a Scotch just after the concert and before his late-night supper; he never eats before conducting...