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...triumphal 75th birthday trip to the U.S., Nadia Boulanger, Paris' matriarch of modern music, became the first woman ever to conduct a full concert by The New York Philharmonic. Borrowing the podium of one of the few notable American composers who was never her pupil, mercurial Maestro Leonard Bernstein, the "tender tyrant" led the orchestra through psalms by her late sister...
...crowd grew angrier, Pastor Constien and his wife had mixed thoughts. Said she afterwards: "We were asked to help those people. That's why the Lord put us here." But Constien feared for the safety of his church, which had recently been redecorated to celebrate its 75th anniversary. He asked the Red Cross to evacuate the Negroes "because of the property involved." The Negroes walked to Red Cross station wagons through volleys of oranges, apples and eggs, and were taken to Negro churches several miles away...
...Eagles were right on target, with their 75th point coming at 5:07, but they bogged down in the final minutes and fell 12 points short of the magic 100 mark...
...longtime Flemish-art buff, Director Edgar Richardson of the Detroit Institute of Arts decided more than a year ago that such a show, opening first in Bruges and then in Detroit, would be an excellent way to celebrate the Detroit Institute's 75th anniversary. After all, the institute owned 10% of all the Flemish art in the U.S. King Baudouin was approached, and agreed to be a patron; so did President Eisenhower. Museums from San Francisco to Munich lent works, and the U.S. Navy was called in to carry the U.S. loans across the Atlantic. This week, when...
...years made a modest living turning out choral adaptations of such varied works as Home on the Range, Pestalozza's Ciribiribin, William Byrd's Ave Verum Corpus. Last week, in Manhattan's Caspary Auditorium, a crowd of musical professionals gathered to honor Arranger Gore on his 75th birthday. But the man who rose to take a shy bow at concert's end was known to the audience not as Gerald Gore but as Composer Wallingford Riegger...