Word: 50th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good Priory port, to toast the eldest of their number. It was the Rev. Dom John Hugh Diman's 83rd birthday. It was also a memorable fortnight for him. Last week his old school, St. George's (Episcopal), one of the top U.S. prep schools, celebrated its 50th year. This week another of his old schools, Portsmouth Priory (Catholic), marked its 20th. He founded both, and was their first headmaster...
Last week the Czechs set out to discover what kind of noises Allied music had been producing behind the din of war. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, the citizens of Prague opened a four-week Government-financed International Music Festival. Main courses in the feast: jarry American spice and the lean tonal dishes of modernists in Russia, France and England...
...longer played. He wrote another in 1920, in memory of Debussy-a seldom played twelve-minute symphony for wind instruments, which he still thinks is a wonderful work but was too new for the public then. In 1930 Koussevitsky persuaded him to write a symphony for the 50th anniversary of the Boston Orchestra. Stravinsky, a devout Greek Catholic, wrote the Symphony of Psalms, with three choral movements sung in Latin. The next came in 1940, when the Chicago Symphony Orchestra celebrated its 50th anniversary. Says Stravinsky drily: "I am a composer of anniversaries." He composed a symphony in four parts...
Then she told how it all happened. Toscanini, who had conducted the world premiere of Puccini's La Bohème in Turin in 1896, was to perform it again, on its 50th anniversary, over NBC. He had picked the Met's Licia Albanese for Mimi, Jan Peerce for Rodolfo. For the second feminine lead (Musetta) he had tried out 30 women, was satisfied with none. Then Met Conductor Wilfred Pelletier, who teaches at Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music, suggested a 20-year-old, plump, black-haired pupil of his, who so far had sung only...
...Madison Square Garden last week, on the 50th anniversary of its first game in New York, St. Paul's (which once was too good for anything less than a college team) skated fancy circles around Deerfield Academy...