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We knew the Calvin who worked with kids, organized basketball camps and taught baton twirling.
The truth is the thing that I excel at in the most is actually baton twirling.
The chorus and orchestra respond well to Gergiev's baton, as usual, and Philips' sound is the best in the series so far.
The team will compete against baton twirlers from Japan, America, Canada, France and Holland.
How about those majorettes, you know, the baton twirlers, ever see them strut?
At a recent wedding, I saw a dancing mother twirl a rifle in both hands above her head like the baton of a majorette.
They began with a tatterdemalion parade of musicians and baton twirlers down the aisle and onto the stage.
The police officer claimed he used the baton in self-defence, although he admitted that he had struck the first blow.
She clicks the top of her pen several times and flips it dexterously around her fingers like a majorette twirling a baton.
Musically, too, it proves deeply rewarding under Yves Abel's stylish Mozartian baton.
Just then, there was the sound of a baton tapping loudly against a music stand.
Grasping the baton with both hands, he takes a single low bow, then turns to face the orchestra.
Firstly, a man brandishes a halberd before whirling it around like a majorette might twirl a baton.
Police carried out baton charges and let police dogs loose on the teenagers, who fought back with bricks, rocks, golf balls and petrol bombs.
Later, at school in Uppingham, he even wielded the baton, with evident glee, for a newly composed opera written by a young friend.
This is home to the Seattle Symphony, but even before the conductor lifts his baton, you get a show.
I normally deplore applause that begins before the conductor lowers his baton, but I joined in the spontaneous delight at the pyrotechnics.
From the day he raised a baton as principal conductor in Birmingham in 1980, Rattle has been the golden boy of classical music.
When a conductor raises or lowers his or her baton, the musicians know it is time to start or stop playing.
When he conducted, the baton looked small and yet he held it so delicately.
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In his hand was a baton which he brandished demoniacally at an orchestra of his own.
The drum major following the staff turned and swung his baton, then resumed his former position.
It was in fact only a small square of stuff hanging from a transversal baton.
And where Phelps leads with his baton of birch most of the other drovers of rah-rah boys follow.
Oh, I'll have to send you to the provost-martial at baton Rouge and let you settle that with him.
Suddenly a slim, alert figure leaped upon the estrade and struck the desk sharply with a baton.
Glory and the field-marshal's baton, after fifty-one years of hard work!
It was you, your Model 10, six rounds in the gun, six on your belt, a blackjack in a back pocket and a night stick in your baton loop.
He and his baton are your friends and are giving you your tempo.
Among the items seized were a BB gun, a machete, a telescopic baton, a hunting knife, Class A and B drugs and a substantial amount of cash.
He had in one hand a lighted torch, or link, and in the other a baton of crab-tree, so thick and heavy, that it might well be termed a club.
He held in his hand the roll of parchment, which, on this festive day, had become his baton.
Then the conductor, seeing that the incident was over, raised his baton.
As he did so, I loosed a cry of alarm and almost dropped the baton.
The rest of his toilet was soon achieved, and he proudly marched out of the room, wrapped up in his great pilot monkey jacket, and sporting his harpoon like a marshal's baton.
It was almost as if the sound sprang up at the rising of his hand, just as the music of a great orchestra seems to leap under the baton of the conductor.
Frey denied striking Jacobs with a baton, and other officers testified that they neither saw a baton used nor used baton themselves, Gagliardini said.
However, a baton is kept here, which the pilgrim thrusts through a hole in the screen, and then he no longer doubts that the true Pillar of Flagellation is in there.
A submissive orchestra dictated to by a spectacled man with frowsy hair and a dress suit, industriously followed the bobs of his head and the waves of his baton.
Your uncle Silas knowed a family in Baton Rouge that knowed his people very well.
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