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...Sordello tells it, Callas grabbed him and whispered loudly: "Don't hold that note!" He held on for dear life. In the in termission. Callas told him: "You will never sing with me again." Then she canceled her next performance of Lucia, to put pressure on Manager Rudolf Bing to fire Sordello-or so Sordello says. Her failure to appear in Lucia caused a near riot of disappointed ticket holders who had to be quieted by the cops. And two days later, Sordello got a registered letter from Manager Bing dismissing him from the Met. "Miss Callas," Sordello summed...
...indeed hold the high note, and that during intermission she told him "it wasn't a nice thing to do." To which, said Diva Callas, he replied: " I am going to kill you'-meaning vocally, of course." She did not even mention the matter to Manager Bing, and canceled her performance because of a throat irritation. Harassed Manager Bing, firmly siding with Diva Callas, said Sordello had been fired solely because he had added extra embellishments and showy high notes to his part in Lucia, and, when reprimanded, had been "impertinent" to Conductor Fausto Cleva. The final Callas...
...Sullivan Show (Sun., 8 p.m.. CBS). Bing Crosby, Phil Silvers, Julie Andrews. Louis Armstrong; a tribute to LIFE Magazine on its 20th anniversary...
...Callas' rivals, dramatically sailed down the aisle to her seat and drew an ovation. But long before the final eleven curtain calls that held the audience well past midnight, long before Callas achieved a solo bow (though solo curtain calls are outlawed under General Manager Rudolf Bing), the critical crowd had capitulated. The customary cliches about musical battles did not apply; she did not "sing like an angel." and she did not "sing her way into the audience's heart." She sang if anything like a fascinating demon, and hers was a far more turbulent appeal than...
...years, Bundy has been an effective complement to President Pusey in advising and carrying out the latter's educational programs. "Where Mr. Pusey strikes you with his directness and his strong-minded stability," one Faculty member recently remarked, "Mac Bundy positively scintillates. He goes off like a fireworks factory, bing, bing, and thinks so fast that he often outruns his troops...