Word: maestro
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...audience in the crowded old Caracas Municipal Theater began to clap and whistle. At 9:45 the red curtain finally went up. Tall, mustachioed old Maestro Vicente Emilio Sojo bowed from the podium, turned and led his 76 musicians in Hail the Brave People, Venezuela's national anthem. The first concert of the revitalized Orquesta Sinfónica de Venezuela (founded 1930) was off to a trumpeting start...
Vaughn Monroe Show (Sat. 9:30 p.m., CBS). Colonel Stoopnagle, purry-voiced British Singer Beryl Davis, Maestro Monroe & orchestra, in a stylish variety hour...
Target: Toscanini. Victim of O'Connell's fiercest blast is Conductor Arturo Toscanini. The Maestro seen here is ill-natured, stubborn, suspicious, resentful. The reason for O'Connell's dislike is soon apparent: Toscanini once informed RCA Victor that he would make no records while Director O'Connell was present...
...Holworthy roommate, Stewart B. Gifford '51, who has fiddler James A. Gleason '51 down the corridor, pianist Howard J. Scott '51 on the other side and sax maestro William Olmsiead '51 underneath the floorboards disagreed "Music hath charms," he insisted...
Arturo Toscanini had broken into his vacation to conduct the première himself. At rehearsal with the NBC Symphony Orchestra, he seemed to be having the time of his life. Don Gillis' new Symphony for Fun was the kind of thing the maestro could let himself go on. On the podium, he swayed, sang, all but strutted a cakewalk. Once the Toscanini temper flared up-when the xylophonist floundered over a particularly tricky passage. In the studio control room, Composer Gillis watched the struggling xylophonist, whispered to a companion: "Poor guy. Doesn't he realize that...