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...association with General Manager Anthony A. Bliss. This season, the Met will offer 210 performances of 23 operas during its 30-week season at New York City's Lincoln Center, as well as the 56 performances it presents while on tour in the spring. Notes Kurt Herbert Adler, who was general director of the San Francisco Opera for 28 years until his retirement a year ago: "There are two jobs in this country that are impossible to fill. One is President of the U.S., and the other is director of the Metropolitan Opera...
...been criticized by a few academics who fear that corporations may be out to gain too much influence over the schools. But the growing number of Adopt-a-School advocates point out that vocational courses can stress mathematics and English. The approach has won the support of Philosopher Mortimer Adler, who believes that U.S. schools should concentrate more heavily on the fundamentals. Says he: "The corporations are making a contribution. I don't see any need to be skeptical about it or cynical...
...Merola victory in 1971 gave Mitchell a niche in the San Francisco Opera's summer apprentice program and, more important, a place in the heart of the company's then general director, Kurt Herbert Adler. Two years later, Leona sang her first Micaela in Bizet's Carmen at the San Francisco Spring Opera Theater. In 1974 she also won a $10,000 Opera America grant, and used it to move to Los Angeles to begin studies with Voice Teacher Ernest St. John Metz, still her coach and mentor...
...teacher who is tired, not from teaching but from reading people like Mortimer Adler. If the experts would work in a high school for two years, assuming all duties from supervising dances to hall duty, then their pronouncements might be considered important. They need to emerge from the dark ages of academic theory and ego to the realities of contemporary education...
...took a Paideia seminar with Mortimer Adler last spring. Rather than a "first among equals," he was a bombastic drill sergeant, more devoted to playing "Guess My Interpretation" than to the discussion and evaluation of student ideas...