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latest inventions in technology 2021 :: Article Creator MIT Technology Review In early 2021, Mark Horowitz '71 received a call from the props master for a Leonard Bernstein biopic called Maestro. "He wanted to know if I could make a few batons for Bradley Cooper, the star and director," says Horowitz, a retired software developer and actuary who moonlights as a crafter of conductor's batons. Horowitz was not entirely surprised. His father, Dick Horowitz, a Juilliard-trained percussionist, had made several batons for Bernstein—and other famous classical and operatic conductors. It is even rumored that Bernstein was buried with one of the elder Horowitz's batons. The props master "probably expected me to fall off my chair," says Horowitz, who learned to fashion batons working alongside his father in their home workshop in the 1960s. "I didn't have the heart to tell him I'd never heard of Bradley Cooper....