Word: studioful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kind words or a joke for everyone at rehearsal. The Maestro had his one inevitable flare-up of the day, this time over the absence without leave of a couple of trumpeters. The guest pianist watched the little tantrum, then, turning towards his wife and friends in the studio, wigwagged his eyebrows and giggled. For the soloist was a man who calls Toscanini "Maestro" to his face, but "Papa" when he's not around...
Last week, the mob of music fans who stormed into Radio City's modernistic Studio 8-H for the opening concert of Toscanini's eleventh NBC season, heard a concert to be remembered. As usual, shy, nervous Pianist Horowitz almost had to be propelled onstage. But, once there, the power and diamond-hard brilliance of his playing had the studio audience bravoing between movements, despite NBC's standing request to the audience not to applaud until the work is finished. When it was finally over, little, white-topped Papa and slender, dark-haired Volodya stood together, bowing...
...Rest. Now 44, Pianist Horowitz has slowed to a more becoming pace. He has forsaken Beverly Hills for a quiet apartment and studio in Manhattan's upper East side (and has become a U.S. citizen). Gone are the days of which he complains, "I played certain works so often that I couldn't hear them any more." He still commands the biggest box office of any living concert musician, but is sticking to his resolve to perform only six months of the year and not more than twice a week...
Actor's Studio (Sun. 8:30 p.m., ABC television). James Thurber's The Catbird Seat...
...urged to consider, for informal wear, the advantages of the heavily starched, detached collar*: it does not wilt under studio lights. Bright, patterned ties, like print frocks, are out-and for the same reason...