Word: aarons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Metropolitan Opera would not produce and do them well? Manhattan Maecenas Lincoln Kirstein held the second view and, as managing director of the entire New York City Center (opera, ballet, theater), tried to make it work. Through a $200,000 Rockefeller grant, he helped commission such modern operas as Aaron Copland's The Tender Land and the daring stage designs for Von Einem's The Trial, revived such confections as Rossini's Cenerentola. The Center was losing some $100,000 a year, but Kirstein often helped with money fromhis own pocket...
...Million Pocketed. The oldest bank in the U.S. operating under its original charter, the Bank of the Manhattan Co. was the offshoot of a firm chartered, with the aid of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, to build Manhattan's first waterworks, use any excess capital in "moneyed transactions." To break the Federalist Party's monopoly on New York banking, the water merchants bought (for $30,000) a house at 40 Wall Street (still the bank's address), opened for business...
...still lifes were the work of the university's artist in residence, Aaron Bohrod. With them Artist Bohrod, 47, emerges as one of the foremost exponents of Trompe-l'Oeil (fool-the-eye) painting in the U.S. since the 19th century...
...Steven Aaron, as a gouty old gossip, is another worthy addition to the destructive drawing room. But once the good tempered malice of Lady Teazle is allowed to take control of the play, the sinner's circle must suffer and with them some of Sheridan's best effects. Though the friendly barbs in the Sneerwell drawing-room provide a vastly enjoyable visit, the play might also have retained its cutting edge to good purpose...
Last year's lecture series was given by Sir Herbert Read on the general topic "Art and the Development of Human Consciousness." Other recent lecturers have included Aaron Copland, Thornton Wilder, and E. E. Cummings...