Word: baalbek
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...play three encores, and a halt had to be called after Lenny explained: "We are very tired from a long plane flight." As he shuffled offstage, a Greek woman shouted: "A new god has come to Athens." Two days later, in Lebanon, the music chairman of the Baalbek Festival said: "I want to cry. Everything now will be anticlimactic...
...scheduled tour would have taken ten to twelve weeks, would have included a two-week stand in Moscow, plus such stops as Milan, Athens, Berlin, Brussels and Paris, and probably Cairo, Baalbek, Santander and Warsaw. It was not only the longest European tour ever scheduled for a U.S. orchestra, but also would have been the Chicago Symphony's first overseas tour in its 68-year history. The only trouble with it, argued 7O-year-old Conductor Reiner, was that it would leave the orchestra "miserably worn out" for its regular Chicago season. The explanation did not satisfy the musicians...
...frisked all comers except Deputies and diplomats, even examined newsmen's pencils to make sure they were not bombs. Men for whom the government had long since put out arrest warrants showed up under special safe-conduct, and there were some curious confrontations. The eagle-beaked boss of Baalbek's rebels strode up to Foreign Minister Charles Malik, target of the most savage opposition attacks, and with a big smile, shook hands. In trooped other rebels, all wanted by the cops, to be greeted with handshakes, wisecracks and even embraces by some of their erstwhile bitter enemies...
...Egyptian commandos (identified as such by their manner of speech) attacked Baalbek late...
...Baalbek (July 25-Sept. i) offers the most exotic of the newer festivals, organized chiefly to show off the picturesque little town near Beirut, Lebanon, which boasts some of the best-preserved Roman ruins in existence. At festival time, Baalbek's streets are emptied of the sheep and goats usually being driven to market by Arab tribesmen, are filled instead with foreign cars. This year's highlights: Rome's Santa Cecilia orchestra, two nights of Lebanese dances and village songs. More dramatic than the music are the floodlit temples of Jupiter and Bacchus, which form a backdrop...