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...upset him when the singing was glorious. With a board of directors that applauds him with rubber-stamp approval, an audience that regularly fills every seat, and a local gentry that promises in advance to make up the final deficit in his budget, San Francisco Opera Director Kurt Herbert Adler remains on the critical list...
Inflaming Ease. In ten years in San Francisco, Adler's furious pursuit of perfection has brought remarkable results. The company has given the first U.S. performances of such works as Britten's Midsummer Night's Dream and Cherubini's Medea, revivals of Nabucco and Ariadne auf Naxos, American opera debuts to such singers as Birgit Nilsson, Leontyne Price, Boris Christoff, Sandor Konya and Sutherland. Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, who has yet to sing at New York's Metropolitan, has been appearing in San Francisco since 1955. On good nights, the opera's chorus and ballet...
Matching the Met in size as well as quality is Adler's prime ambition. He approaches the job with enough cheek to propose himself as a cover boy to magazine editors, enough musicality to remain an undisputed favorite among singers, enough energy to stay at the opera house 18 hours a day during the season and turn his vacations into 48-hour jokes...
Died. Phyllis Bottome (rhymes with got home), 79, British novelist and disciple of Viennese Psychologist Alfred Adler, who turned out 34 melodramatic novels, including two bestsellers of the 1930s (Private Worlds, The Mortal Storm), climaxed her career with an excellent biography of Adler; after a long illness; in London...
...stabilize their prices by buying when prices are falling sharply and selling when they are rising swiftly. On the New York Stock Exchange where they account for 30% of all transactions 353 specialists belong to 107 firms. Each firm usually handles 12 to 15 issues, though the biggest-Adler, Coleman...