maestro, chorale, West Point

Robert Bass, the longtime music director and conductor of the Collegiate Chorale, a New York group whose performances and recordings have earned it international recognition, died on Monday at his home in Manhattan. He was 55.


Mr. Bass conducted choral repertory and opera for the Collegiate, which was founded in 1941 by Robert Shaw, taking its name from its first rehearsal space, the Marble Collegiate Church. Mr. Bass’s discography includes the premiere recording of Strauss’s “Friedenstag” and Beethoven cantatas with Deborah Voigt

cho・rale

━━ n. コーラル, 賞美歌曲; ＝choral.

maestro
noun [C] plural maestros or maestri
a man who is very skilled at playing or conducting (= directing the performance of) music
* Germany's Maestro Masur Marks 80th Birthday (2007)

A Maestro Conducting With Heart ... a New One
By CLAUDIA LA ROCCO
Robert Bass has been the music director of the Collegiate Chorale since 1980 and is no stranger to the stage. But his new heart is.

葛林斯班（Alan Greenspan）從1987年開始擔任美國聯準會主席，是全球最有權勢的人士之一，他的經濟政策深深影響全球經濟的走向。人們稱他為大師（Maestro）、遠見家，也是史上最棒的經濟學家之一。但是，這位不知從哪冒出來的媒體寵兒，究竟是什麼樣的人？世人真的了解艾倫‧葛林斯班嗎？……他在許多人眼中或許是個傳奇人物，但只要仔細探究他的所作所為

-->，就會發現他的光環正迅速消退中



當年10月中旬﹐格林斯潘出人意料地在兩次利率決策會議期間宣佈再次降息25個基點。

鮑勃•伍德沃德(Bob Woodward)在其關於格林斯潘的傳記Maestro中寫道﹐格林斯潘自己並不想再次降息﹐但之所以如此是迫於麥克多諾和時任Fed副主席的艾利斯•瑞夫林(Alice Rivlin)的壓力。

到了1998年底﹐FOMC例行會議再度宣佈降息25個基點。市場度過了難關﹐格林斯潘也登上了《時代》(Time)雜誌的封面﹐身份是“拯救世界委員會”的主席﹐這也是如今他在人們心目中的形象。

Simon Rattle spurned U.S. advances, and that's not such a bad thing. Article by J. Kosman. San Francisco Chronicle. November 23, 2003

For watchers of the international orchestral scene, the coming week brings a landmark visit. In its first San Francisco appearance in nearly half a century, the Berlin Philharmonic will give two concerts in Davies Symphony Hall under its new music director, Simon Rattle.


Or, as he's known to American orchestra managers, The One That Got Away.


During the freakish game of musical chairs that descended on the orchestra world four or five years ago -- a period when some half a dozen major organizations, both here and abroad, suddenly found themselves in the market for a new music director at the same time -- the biggest question was whether Rattle would wind up at the helm of an American orchestra.


But when the dust had settled, the English maestro, then just 44, had successfully resisted the blandishments of several U.S. managers and instead secured the leadership of the famously tradition-bound Philharmonic.

West Point: the US Military Academy was established; it was only in 1976 that women were finally admitted (1802) “西點軍校”（ 誤譯）為正式名稱US Military Academy

West Point（after the scenic town in the Hudson River Valley where it is located，point應該是(PIECE OF LAND a long thin area of land that stretches out into the sea: 如Spurn Point -- 參觀 Wikipedia article "United States Military Academy". 圖片 )）

ウェスト・ポイント ((New York州南東部の軍用地；米国陸軍士官学校(U.S. Military Academy)がある)).