Word: totten
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other winners from here and their fields include: John P. Emerson 8G, economics and the Japanese language; Joseph W. Elder 1G, South Asian studies and sociology; Joseph B. Grieder 1G, Chinese language and history; Harold L. Kahn 1G, Chine language and polities; and Gilbert D. Totten 1G, research on the recent history of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia...
Conductors' behavior in the wings, says Totten, is often as idiosyncratic as their gestures on the podium: Boston's legendary Karl Muck would never see visitors after a performance; Serge Koussevitzky saw all comers. Leopold Stokowski makes his escape right after his last bow-"through the basement, if necessary...
...Totten has a special soft spot for the late George Gershwin, first remembers him as a music-hungry youngster to whom he gave occasional free passes. Later, Composer Gershwin gave Totten free tickets to his Broadway openings...
Keeping the 2,yoo-seat hall in running order in season is a seven-day-a-week job for Totten. It calls for the administration of a 130-man staff, and for patience in dealing with artists who sometimes think they know more about his job than Totten does. And it calls for a kind of benevolent chicanery: on one occasion, a touring orchestra wired that it expected to rehearse the next day-at the time already scheduled for another rehearsal. Totten thought hard, arranged for the vans with the incoming instruments to break down just long enough...
...John Totten still likes his job, has no plans for retiring. He also testifies that he really likes music. But in all his years as manager of Carnegie Hall, he has never quite found time to sit through an entire performance...