Word: programing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eager Tristram Coffin* wanted to start off with a bang. One day last week, the former CBS correspondent came out with the loudest report he could think of: that Harry Truman might go to Moscow. "A relaxed, feet-on-the-chair session with Joseph Stalin is part of the program," wrote Coffin...
...around the course, whipping it for all it was worth, the audience couldn't get to its feet fast enough. The passion and power he found in César Franck's over-explored symphony won him another wild ovation before intermission. And by the time his program was over, Victor de Sabata had Pittsburgh in his pocket. After the pounding, accelerating bombardment of Bolero, there was a full minute of silence, as the audience pulled itself together. Then came the cheers. Next morning the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reviewed the concert on Page One; the afternoon Sun-Telegraph...
...certainly wasn't De Sabata's first program that lured the critics. There was only one new work, a viciously dissonant and twisting symphonic poem, Marinaresca e Baccanale, by a little known Italian contemporary named Giorgio Federico Ghedini. The others-Berlioz' blood & thunder Roman Carnival Overture, Franck's D Minor Symphony and Ravel's Bolero-were the kind of overly familiar music that delights most audiences and drugs most critics...
...Milan Conservatory-at the age of twelve. Six years later, La Scala produced his first opera, Il Macigno. When Toscanini brought the La Scala orchestra to the U.S. on tour in 1920-1, he played De Sabata's symphonic poem Juventus on every program. Now better known as conductor than composer, De Sabata insists with a smile that his is "a beastly profession." He swears he would rather have his two children, Elios, 17, and Eliana, 13, be "thieves or murderers than musicians...
...sons of a Syracuse peddler, 73-year-old Lee and 68-year-old Jacob J. (for nothing) Shubert were already stage-struck in 1885 when an older brother, Sam, got a job as an extra with a visiting road company at $1 a week. When they found that program boys got $1.50 a week, the three brothers switched to the commercial side, and in a few years were leasing theaters-and putting on shows-in Rochester, Albany, Troy, Utica and Buffalo as well as Syracuse...