Word: auditorium
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week ago and the New York Times was not amused on four counts (the opera, the architecture, the decorative art, the opening night in general). But none of these four things are important compared to the miracle on 65th Street: for the first time in a Lincoln Center auditorium, you can hear--every note that the world's highest-paid orchestra and most celebrated singers produce...
Under a narrow ceiling and then suddenly into the auditorium. But Midas has been there first. The boxes, the ceiling, the proscenium arch, the curtain, and the fifth violinist's teeth are gold. So is a sculpture above the stage that looks like a cubist's idea of a squatting giraffe. In the old Met, the gold was dark, worked and decorated; here it is plain and so bright it hurts the eyes. Little diamond mustaches are affixed to the boxes. And there are more star-shaped chandeliers. Clearly, someone got up one morning out of his Procrustean bed with...
This past Friday night, more than 900 people attended Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) services in Memorial Church. Conservative services, which draw as many people as the Reform for the evening Yom Kippur service, and more for the morning, were conducted by Rabbi Gold in the Rindge Tech Auditorium...
...restaurants and bars in the new Met, he suggests that the lights are too bright. As electricians scramble, he calls, "Go on. Go on. Kill them! If we turn them down low enough, we can raise the prices." (Laughter.) Now he sits unnoticed in the back of the auditorium, watching a rehearsal. Then he leaps up, steps over some seats and halts a bevy of girl dancers onstage. "How about raising the hems above the knee? Hmm. Better check the knees first." (Titters.) Now he is off to one of the rehearsal rooms to tend to a soprano...
Only trouble is, he hardly ever gets the beat right. Not long ago, Bing sat in the Met auditorium watching a rehearsal and conducting his own version of the rhythm, his hand discreetly fluttaring around below seat-top level. Behind him sat Conductor Thomas