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...tour hasn't always been an artistic or financial asset, even as recently as Rudolf Bing's regime. "The tour is the albatross hung around the neck of the manager of the Metropolitan Opera. Eventually, I suppose, it will simply fall off from sheer economic weight... Whatever we do, the tour is artistically a scandal," Bing wrote in his memoirs...
...popular standards. They work within a rich tradition that came out of ragtime and came in with the fascinating rhythms of George Gershwin and Jerome Kern. The early singers were "intuitive and homemade," Balliett observes, but their descendants are sophisticated musicians who blend the soft contours of the Bing Crosby crooners with the hard blues of Billie Holiday...
...farmers and workers gave me the impression on this trip of being rather poignantly embarrased by the difficult times China has experienced in the past 10 years. And they have invested enormous hopes in Teng." Bernstein and Clark depended heavily on the encyclopedic knowledge of the Hong Kong colleague Bing W. Wong, a native of Fukien province, who was pleased when his homeland resumed relations with the U.S. Says Wong: "Each country has something to learn from the other...
Nicknames Tiki, Magic, Tiburkie, Sudden, Stewdog, Larue, Teru, Daddy, Santa, Hotep, Pec, B-Squared, Zos, and Bing...
Down 2-0 because of some opportunistic baserunning by the Minutemen, centerfielder Charlie Santos-Buch led off the inning with a long double to straightaway center. Leftfielder Mike Stenhouse moved Santos-Buch over to third with a single back up the box; and then three pitches later, Bing did his thing...