Word: alle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When it was all over, Reporter Browning found it was "the hardest thing I ever tried to write. It's easy to expose people, but hard to be nice . . . They were really good to me."
Since they had not learned how to read intelligently, "they tended to look to their professors to tell them not merely what books to read but sometimes what chapters and what pages; on being told, the more serious among them would throw themselves upon the recommended pabulum and would try...
With more ballets, Balanchine figures he can extend his season beyond its skimpy three weeks each fall and spring, keep his already devoted dancers eating a few more square meals a year. That too would be all right with Budgeteer Baum. He believes that City Center, which now operates 30...
In some "Golden Rules for Conductors" the maestro admonished crustily: "Remember, you are not playing for your own fun, you are playing for the enjoyment of the audience . . . Never let the horns and woodwinds out of your eye; when you hear them at all, they are already too loud . . . The...
Baron Ochs, the clumsy gallant of Der Rosenkavalier, Strauss thought was consistently misunderstood and misplayed. Instead of "a vulgar monster with a horrible make-up and proletarian manners," as most bassos represented him, Strauss intended him as "a rustic beau, a Don Juan of some 35 years, but nevertheless a...