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...Opera (where he also occasionally tinkled the triangle in the pit). In 1953 he tried out (with 64 other applicants) for the job of music director at Aachen. With a piano score Sawallisch prepared Aachen's cut version of Tannhäuser, learned on his way to the podium for the last act that a 20-page cut had been restored, sailed through the intricate music at sight without a bobble. He was promptly hired...
Condemned as a Socialist, Mollet chose to meet the end like one. Wearily climbing the podium, he delivered a lackluster speech which revealed his own uncertainty about Algerian policy. Then, reaching into his pocket, he produced a brochure and like a park-bench orator began intoning: "I have here a small document given to every new member of the Socialist Party, containing not only the rules but a declaration of principles." Exploded Independent Deputy Roland de Moustier: "Enough propaganda! Your ministers spend their Sundays making Socialist speeches when they should be working." Unruffled, Mollet read out a paragraph about labor...
...class he lectured with such fervor that he once fell clean off his podium. "He transformed Yale's art gallery from a static storehouse of paintings into a bustling teaching museum, established the school of architecture and design as a foremost trainer of museum directors. But the chief purpose behind his flamboyance was to "set my students on fire." He did not favor one form of art or one period, tried to give his students both a taste for excellence and a taste for tolerance. "There are many ways of expressing the human spirit," he would...
Carrying his priceless Stradivarius cello* over his head like a toy. strapping (6 ft. 3½ in.) Virtuoso Gregor Piatigorsky threaded his way through the string section of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony one evening last week, settled himself into the soloist's chair by the podium and launched into a Cello Concerto newly written for him by his old friend Sir William Walton. If the piece itself seemed to ramble like a sun-warmed cow through sprawling masses of musical foliage. Piatigorsky's playing of it was a marvel of taste and tone. Under his sensitive hands...
...close does he come to that line? As a conductor, his unquestionable brilliance is sometimes obscured by his podium manner. He never uses a baton, relying instead on his highly expressive hands and indeed on his whole body. Is the music delicate, finely and rapidly interwoven? "Watching Lennie do some parts of Scheherezade." says Composer Walter Piston, "is like watching a woman knit." Is it the moment for a powerful initial attack? Lennie will deliver a stroke that is worthy of a medieval headsman (in St. Louis once, he delivered an introductory downbeat so overwhelmingly spectacular that every...