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...Gentele, who will succeed Rudolf Bing next year as general manager of the Met, recently took Beverly to lunch to discuss the possibility of her singing with the Met in the seasons ahead. It must be a tempting offer for someone who may not have all that many years of singing left. But, says Beverly, "I'll be delighted to be a guest at the Metropolitan, but just that, just a guest...
...alone and unaided. Their precarious existence permits few to reach old age, and they seem to find little joy in life. Yet the Tasaday like to stand in the rain and let the water course down their bodies. And they enjoy the music of the kúbing, a kind of jew's-harp made from bamboo and carried from place to place in a bamboo...
...years Sir Rudolf Bing has ruled New York's Metropolitan Opera with an iron fist, influencing people but making few friends by imposing rigid discipline on his staff and summarily firing such stars as Baritone Robert Merrill and Maria Callas. Austrian by birth, British and American by achievement, Bing was given the highest accolade of his career last June when the British government made him Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire. But in New York, familiarity had bred discontent. All the more surprising when Sir Rudolf-who will retire at the end of this season-walked...
Abruptly out of touch and out of time, Capra quickly became hobbled by the industrial intricacies of postwar Hollywood. Attempting to retain artistic control over his films, he forms his own movie company, which fails. He goes from making innocuous Bing Crosby musicals to television science films to an ineffectual remake of his own Lady for a Day. After a few more luckless attempts to produce other movies, he settles into uneasy retirement...
...that seems to be changing. In the same week that retiring General Manager Rudolf Bing was knighted by Queen Elizabeth, his chosen successor Goeran Gentele (TIME, Dec. 21, 1970) announced that Conductor Rafael Kubelik would join him at the Met (in 1973-74) as the first music director in the company's 88-year history. Both the job and the man are sure to have a great effect on the Met's future. The new music director will have an equal voice in every phase of the Met's artistic operations...