Word: conducting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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David Fredenthal's Great Fugue was a rhythmic evocation of Conductor Arturo Toscanini in action, and of the music he draws forth. Fredenthal had spent hours in an NBC radio engineer's booth, watching the great man conduct orchestra rehearsals. Toscanini moved too fast to catch in an orthodox sketch, so Fredenthal made multiple-image sketches that recorded a number of recurrent gestures simultaneously. The resulting watercolor bore some relation to Marcel Duchamp's famed Nude Descending a Staircase and some to Gjon Mili's stroboscopic photographs. It had more warmth than either...
David F. Cavers, professor of Law will conduct a seminar in "Problems in the Control of Atomic Energy" for the first time. It will cover the administration of the Atomic Energy Act. John H. C. Morris, visiting professor of Law from Oxford, will give another new seminar in "Conflict of Laws...
Sutherland will teach in the fields of Constitutional and Commercial Law, and Surrey will conduct work in Taxation...
Giuseppe Verdi composed his most fettlesome opera, Falstaff, when he was nearing 80. Last week, white-fringed little Arturo Toscanini, who learned how to play some of Verdi's operas from the famed composer himself some 60 years ago, proved he still had the pep at 83 to conduct a fettlesome performance of Falstaff...
...young composer, a bespectacled string-bean of a man named Sergei Prokofiev, made some revisions and the Chicago company decided to produce it after all. It flopped. Prokofiev got to conduct his The Love for Three Oranges three times-twice in Chicago in 1921, once in Manhattan in 1922. Then, disappointed, he took off for Paris, and, eventually, for Russia. Only the pert little march from the Three Oranges lingered...