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Composer-Conductor Leonard Bernstein raises his baton this week on CBS's Omnibus to conduct Handel's Messiah. But a great many of his viewers are certain to be disappointed. They would much rather hear talented Lennie Bernstein talk about music than play or conduct...
...real star was Pierre Monteux. -who stood like a tree, moving only the tip of his baton, and made Hoffmann sound better than many listeners thought possible. How he did it: he went light on such over-familiar numbers as the Barcarolle, took them perhaps a soupqon faster than usual, and when the drama got heavy, he made it even more dramatic by whipping the percussion section into thunder...
...conductor as a kind of musical Boy Scout, frequently were noisy in rehearsals and harried him with unimportant questions. But this year they defer to his authority with respectful silence, pass their questions up through the concertmaster. Shaw, at home with the instruments as never before, is using a baton for the first time. "I'm beginning to feel the orchestra in my fingers now," he said last week. "My fingers taste the sound; my ears taste the sound. I can't explain it-I just am closer." For Shaw this first permanent conducting is a combination training...
...prime puzzles of chemistry is that biological dynamite, ACTH (adrenocorticotropic hormone). Secreted in microscopic quantities by the pituitary gland at the base of the brain, it acts as a concertmaster, controlling by subtle hints of its chemical baton the equally subtle operations of the adrenal cortex. The cortex, properly stimulated, secretes hormones that control many activities of the body, including growth and reproduction...
...William Frederick Albert, an air chief marshal of the R.A.F., an honorary captain in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, but more recognizable as the Duke of Gloucester, hied himself to Buckingham Palace to pick up a present from a favorite niece Queen Elizabeth II. The gift: the rank and baton of a British Army field marshal...