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...England String Quartet. Works of Beethoven, Ives, and Dvorak, Kresge Auditorium at MIT. Free...
...conduct Louise at the Paris Opera. The other is a new opera house -which is going to be exactly as she wants it or not at all. No recycled movie palaces, thank you. Caldwell wants a structure that will contain a small (800 seats) Baroque theater, a more traditional auditorium (2,000 seats) for 19th century opera and a larger (2,500 to 3,000 seats) hall for film, TV and experimental opera. All she needs is $40 million. That may take a while. It will surely take a lot of brown paper bags. But nobody is betting against Sarah...
...this effort has suddenly paid off grandly, and madly, Springsteen remains obdurately unchanged. He continues to hassle with Appel over playing large halls, and just last month refused to show up for a Maryland concert Appel had booked into a 10,000-seat auditorium. The money is starting to flow in now: Springsteen takes home $350 a week, the same as Appel and the band members. There are years of debt and back road fees to repay. Besides, Springsteen is not greatly concerned about matters of finance. Says John Hammond: "In all my years in this business...
...carrying a .45-cal. pistol was sighted on a catwalk in St. Louis' Kiel Auditorium just an hour before President Ford was to speak there on Sept. 12. He eluded police. About four hours before Moore raised her gun outside San Francisco's St. Francis Hotel, Benedict Silcio, a 27-year-old stevedore, was arrested in that city's Union Square park for threatening Ford. He had handed a note to a cashier in the St. Francis that proclaimed, "The mission: To gun down President Ford. Need to have a room for three people." Then he fled into the park...
...Buildings. Dressed in a short-sleeved shirt, dark pants and a dark tie, and wearing what appeared to be a black wig, the man raced down the catwalk when Calcaterra shouted at him and disappeared into the maze of rooms, corridors and stairways in the upper part of the auditorium. Calcaterra quickly signaled fellow officers on his walkie-talkie, and the Secret Service joined 70 local security officers in sealing off the buildings. In the all-black Baptist gathering, the white man would have stood out, but the influx of dozens of plainclothes white security men preceding the President probably...