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...elegant Barclay Hotel apartment to Philadelphia's venerable Academy of Music. There he will conduct the Philadelphia Orchestra in a typical Ormandy program, the First Symphonies of Shostakovich and Mahler. No matter what tributes or ceremonies may be offered, he will try to step down from the podium as usual with a minimum of sentiment and fuss...
...life," he says. "And I hate golf-hit little balls and run after them. No, not for me." Instead, he will continue to do what he has done for nearly 60 years: conduct. Some observers of late have sensed a faltering of Ormandy's command on the podium, perhaps a dimming of his legendary memory for scores. But he insists that he feels young and fit; and, indeed, his gaze remains keen, his step springy and his stocky (5 ft. 5 in.) frame as muscular as ever. This summer he plans to lead the Philadelphians in their usual three...
...WITHOUT CONTENT, the reform will fail to motivate the teachers who must turn faculty legislation into a coherent educational tool. The Core in fact relieves the faculty of much of the burden of shaping these tools. It shelters faculty behind the podium of a large lecture hall and several layers of graduate student teaching fellows. The Core also cuts the amount of educational imagination required of a teacher by limiting the range of courses the University intends to offer...
After Grandine's final lecture in his epic course two years ago, the hall rose to an emotional standing ovation. Grandine modestly exited through the back, but his students continued applauding for minutes to the empty podium. We add our hands to that tribute...
WITH THE POISE EXPECTED of a fine actor, the performer recites his final line and exits, stage right, to the thunderous applause of his audience. Only there is no curtain, just a podium on a platform, and the orator heads not backstage to be received by an admiring fan, but to the Faculty Club where he joins colleagues for lunch...