Word: bains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...camera crew left before the show was over. Then, for that inevitable one last picture, a Starfighter was ordered to make a low-level pass at subsonic speeds. But the pilot miscalculated, the speed indicator climbed, and the results were spectacularly embarrassing. Just as FAA Deputy Administrator Gordon Bain was answering a reporter's question about the psychological reaction to sonic booms, a walloping blast shook the walls, Bain and the newsmen...
...Bold & Excellent. Parsifal has been Indiana's chef-d'oeuvre every Lenten season since 1949, two years after Wilfred C. Bain, 56, became dean of the music school. The opera is one of Wagner's most inaccessible, but Bain has an ample notion of his school's grandeur, and each year Indiana's Parsifal aspires to more. Last week, with five faculty members in the leading roles, a somber, brooding mirage of sets by Mario Cristini (who spent 25 years with the San Carlo Opera in Naples), a cast of 66, a 62-voice chorus...
...Bain's approach to music teaching is not so much new as it is big, bold and excellent. With a faculty of 103 and a fulltime student body of 1,072 ("the largest in the world," Bain says), the music school has three full orchestras, gives three complete ballet productions and more than 350 recitals a year. But opera is at the heart of Bain's program; the university presents at least six operas a season-weekly from October to May-giving Bloomington, Ind., a longer opera season than Los Angeles, Washington, Miami or Boston. "We do opera...
Nostalgic Surprises. Bain's horses work out in a plant that includes 95 teaching studios and 178 practice rooms, a library of 45,000 books, 10,000 scores and 25,000 phonograph records. Their productions are not surpassed in more than half a dozen opera houses in the country. But even at that, Bain thinks of his Opera Theater as Macy's thinks of its Broadway windows: the glamour of the opera is only a lure to attract students to the business of learning music. When 948 music school graduates let the music school know what had become...
...Democrat Mike Monroney's aviation subcommittee, and brightened hopes that the Senate would quickly pass the $60 million appropriation recently approved by the House. After passage, the technical task of getting the U.S. supersonic program off the ground will fall to Halaby's hard-nosed deputy, Gordon Bain, 54, a former vice president of Slick and Northwest airlines. Under Bain, the FAA will select an airframe company and enginemaker to build a supersonic transport, then oversee the project until the planes are certified as airworthy and delivered to the airlines...