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...opera called Die Frau ohne Schatten (The Woman Without a Shadow) so excited Richard Strauss that he wanted to be gin composing right on the spot. That was in 1911. It was eight years, however, before the shadow became a reality, and then, despite wide critical acclaim, it was 40 years more before it was staged in the U.S. Trouble was, with all those ships and rocky passes, the technical demands of the fanciful libretto were more than most opera houses could handle, especially the matchbox confines of Manhattan's old Met. Now, with a new stage that could...
...biggest crowds ever to pack National Philharmonic Hall cheered and clapped for ten minutes. In Venice's San Giorgio church, where applause is forbidden, clergy and audience alike burst into a spontaneous ovation that one priest excused as "homage our Lord would surely want us to pay." The acclaim was neither for a renowned solo ist nor an old master, but for the Passion and Death of Jesus Christ According to St. Luke by Polish Composer Krzysztof Penderecki, Europe's most impressive new voice in modern music...
...Borsig factory stands outside West Berlin's Free University, a soaring monument to the country's postwar technological strides. Similar commissions by the pair, along with a large exhibition currently traveling throughout West Germany, reveal a technical facility in touch with the times. Most of the acclaim goes to Brigitte Meier-Denninghoff, 43, today ranked as Germany's leading sculptress. Her collaborator husband does not mind his relative oblivion. A former actor, he figures that she was already well on her way before they became a team in 1955. "We'd like to change...
...Jose the fabled foreigner, sitting there on the flagpole as the Los Angeles crowd sings the National Anthem, was to ask some fan what the name of the game was, all he'd hear would be "pitching," so unanimous has been the acclaim for Sandy Koufax, Vulture Regan...
Such is Lyndon Johnson's thirst for acclaim that he has had electronic devices installed in the presidential limousines so that he can drink in the applause of the populace as he drives by. He may soon need an amplifier. The Louis Harris poll reported last week that only 50% of the American public now endorses the President v. 83% in February 1964; the Gallup poll shows an 8% decline, from 56% to 48%, in two months...