Word: switch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Switch, Switch. A concertmaster's influence is so strong, in fact, that by his example he can alter the entire sound of an orchestra. The suavity and elegance of Nadien's playing, for example, have already given his string section a correspondingly new tone. Beyond that, the concertmaster helps decide promotions, auditions, prospective new players, and acts as a father confessor as well as a liaison between the men and the maestro. Barbirolli says that the Italian appellation for concertmaster, violino di spalla, is more apropos: "His is the shoulder that the conductor leans...
...string on Soloist Isaac Stern's violin suddenly snapped in the final movement of a Brahms concerto. Concertmaster Druian quickly gave Stern his Stradivarius, passed the disabled instrument to Assistant Concertmaster Daniel Majeske and continued playing on Majeske's violin. Majeske replaced the string and-switch, switch-Stern finished with a flourish on his fiddle, having missed only one measure of music. Says Druian, with the understatement typical of the supercool concertmaster: "It's all part...
Last week the NASD changed its mind and announced that true prices will be published for some 4,000 active over-the-counter stocks beginning next month. The switch was prompted by an 18-month experiment in which 1,300 stocks were quoted at wholesale prices on a test basis. Not only did the dealers survive the experience, but other unlisted companies clamored to get in on the program, realizing that accurate over-the-counter quotations help broaden investor interest...
...does Consolidated Edison's Indian Point plant 30 miles up the Hudson River from Manhattan. That is 33% less per kw-h than it costs Con Edison to make power from coal in Manhattan. Even the TVA, though blessed with abundant sources of coal, will switch to fissionable fuel at its new Decatur, Ala., plant, largest (2,200,000 kw.) of its kind...
That would leave the professors one alternative, if they wanted it: switch from the universities to industry...