Word: sapiro
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After lunch, Stravinsky usually tends to stacks of personal and business correspondence (in four languages: Russian, French, English, German), sees friends and sometimes visitors, whom Stravinsky likes or dislikes instantly. Says one of his intimate friends, Attorney Aaron Sapiro: "When I bring a guest to his house or a person who wishes to talk to him, Stravinsky will excuse himself after a few minutes, call me to the hallway and say either 'take him away, he's insincere,' or 'I like him, we will enjoy this...
...hobnob with his neighbors, but they frequently see him toiling up the hill in leather-thonged sandals, slacks and sports shirt, his arms full of groceries. With his wife Vera, he worships regularly at the Greek Orthodox Church in downtown Los Angeles. He seldom goes to parties, because, says Sapiro, "he meets so many people who think they know all about music-and particularly his music...
...past 35 years San Francisco has had a municipal band leader but no band. When a civic celebration calls for music, Director Phil Sapiro, 63, just drops in at the musicians' union clubrooms and persuades a few pinochle players to come along. He has blue uniforms and gold-lettered caps for the recruits, but seldom time for a rehearsal...
Last week Director Sapiro was lining up bandsmen for the biggest assignment of his career: the United Nations Conference. In his cubbyhole office (behind the City Hall elevator shaft) Phil Sapiro had carefully scored the anthems of each & every United Nation. The new Russian anthem he transcribed from a piano and vocal arrangement. "But I'll check with the delegations themselves before we play a note," he said. "You know, where you really run into trouble is with those Latin American countries. They keep changing anthems every time there is a revolution -but the band will be ready...