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...decade. What Stone has managed to do in a single building is to reintroduce into modern architecture the quality of monumentality and stateliness that functional, stripped-down modern has long lacked. Stone's inspiration was the great temple forms of Greece and Rome, set on a podium, which in the New Delhi case also serves to shelter cars from the blistering India...
Unlike Reiner, Ormandy uses no baton. He swiveled and swayed on the podium, sweeping his arms in long, scythe-like motions, which blurred individual phrases but drew from his orchestra the longspun melodic line that is Ormandy's chief delight. The audience applauded briskly, and most critics splashed their reviews with such words as "energetic." "singing," "blazing." But for all the blaze, Ormandy's tempi were questionable, and his lush handling of the strings in the Bach reminded Chicago Sun-Times Critic Robert C. Marsh of "chocolate syrup" with ''a whipped-cream decoration." Ormandy achieved...
This, to hear Conductor Leonard Bernstein tell it, is what might be happening at a climactic moment during Richard Strauss's Don Quixote. Bernstein bawled this analysis from the podium at one of his current New York Philharmonic Young People's Concerts. His point: music does not need verbal meanings assigned to it, and Don Quixote could as well be about Superman as about the "silly old man" on a "skinny, bony old horse...
...carry us off as prisoners. We collected candles in case the electricity was cut off. Through it all, we maintained the forms of parliamentary procedure. At 4 in the morning, during a debate on the land law, a sailor climbed up on the platform, went to the podium and stood there for a time as though sunk in thought. Then, abruptly, he pulled Chairman Chernov's sleeve and announced that, according to instructions he had received, everybody was to leave the hall. An argument began between Chernov and the "Citizen Sailor," Chernov insisting: "We'll disperse only...
...long and laureled career, Voice has also had devoted helpers. Only four conductors have occupied the Firestone podium: Hugo Meriani, William Daly, Alfred Wallenstein and, for the past 14 years, debonair Howard Barlow, onetime conductor of the Columbia Broadcasting Symphony, who is proud that he has "never been mobbed by bobby-soxers or threatened by rioting teen-agers." Suave Hugh James, 42, has been the show's an nouncer for 19 years. And for the past 20 years, Firestone's National Advertising Manager A. J. McGinness has commuted almost every week between Akron and Manhattan studios...