Word: maestro
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...gamin, he went through 1917 and 1918 as a lieutenant in the artillery, won the welterweight championship of the French Army. In 1921 he landed in Mexico and went straight to work with the famed Revolutionary Syndicate of Technical Workers, Painters & Sculptors which, with Rivera as its gun-toting maestro, was then remaking Mexican art. Of what he found in Mexico he wrote...
Philadelphia's Curtis Institute is grooming Cuban Margot Ros, 12, soft-eyed pianist-prodigy who played in Havana concerts at three. Maestro Leopold Stokowski, introducing her at a Philadelphia children's concert two years ago, called her "one of the greatest products of Cuba." She loves Shirley Temple, ''would dearly love to skate in the snow...
...none other than Sergei Koussevitzky and his Boston Symphony Orchestra mounted a temporary dais, tuned up while into the clattery room for cocktails and canapés crammed some 4,000 men & women attending the 63rd annual convention of the American Bankers Association. In a din so constant that Maestro Koussevitzky once threw up his hands and stamped off the stage, the orchestra proceeded to play...
...orchestra had 92 members, some of them seasoned players in National Broadcasting Co. orchestras, others newly hired from symphonies all over the world. Titled the NBC Symphony Orchestra, it was especially assembled to play under Arturo Toscanini when that exacting little maestro arrives in the U. S. in December, to fulfill the contract he signed with NBC last winter (TIME, Feb. 15). For the ten concerts he will conduct on Saturday nights (10 to 11:30 E. S. T. on both NBC networks), Toscanini will receive $40,000 plus his passage and U. S. income taxes...
...When we reach the day when opinion is controlled either for politics or money, we will be on our way to join Joe Stalin, Handsome Adolph and Maestro Mussolini. With those boys you take what is dished out to you. You not only like it if it kills you-but you also cheer for it-or else. That is the end of free speech which is the end of everything properly called American...