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...wood-lined, spacious office at the Metropolitan Opera, Sir Rudolf Bing last week played out the last days of his 22-year regime as general manager-declining farewell-party invitations, phoning instructions to his staff, checking on arrangements in the auditorium. One flight upstairs, in a cubbyhole barely big enough for one Valkyrie maiden, General Manager-Designate Goeran Gentele of Sweden prepared to take over next September -negotiating union contracts, lining up repertory, auditioning new singers...
Metropolitan Opera Salute to Rudolf Bing. Joan Sutherland, Richard Tucker, Birgit Nilsson. Roberta Peters and others pay tribute to Bing with farewell concert. 9:30, April 30. Chan...
...Kagan among poor Guatemalan children. There, boys are more highly valued than girls, are talked to more and become more verbal. In the U.S., Psychiatrist David Levy has found that boys who are atypically good with words and inept with figures have been overprotected by their mothers. Psychologist Elizabeth Bing has observed that girls who excel at math and spatial problems have often been left to work alone by their mothers, while highly verbal girls have mothers who offer frequent suggestions, praise and criticism...
...seat opera theater is as glittering as on any opening night at the Met. Besides students and opera buffs, it includes leading critics, top performers like Tenor Placido Domingo and Pianist Alexis Weissenberg, theatrical luminaries like Lillian Gish and Ben Gazzara, even an old nemesis, Sir Rudolf Bing...
Wagner has not fared well at the Metropolitan Opera during the 21-year regime of Rudolf Bing. No fault of Bing's: except for the shining example of Soprano Birgit Nilsson, most singers during that period barely coped with Wagner's long, heroic, leading roles. On the whole, it was left to stage directors and designers to make up in looks what was missing in sound, usually with limited success...