Word: bostons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...while it looked as though there would be no Boston Arts Festival this year: the Park Commissioner refused to allow use of the Public Gardens because of all the trampling the grass underwent in previous years. But he finally yielded to the forces of culture when the Festival authorities promised to have the grounds reseeded, and the seventh annual Festival took place successfully, ending a week...
...less timely was this year's selection, in view of the announcement that the U.S. will attempt three lunar explorations this fall: Jacques Offenbach's musical fantasy, The Voyage to the Moon (1875). This was the American premiere of the work, and the first production of the newly-formed Boston repertory company, The Opera Group. The work was given in a brilliant English adaptation, complete with two full-blown ballets (on the front and back of the moon), and was hilariously staged and authoritatively conducted by Sarah Caldwell...
...Festival's final evening featured a concert of two works "written for the out-of-doors," played by members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Richard Burgin. On the Festival stage 13 wind-players performed Mozart's Serenade in B-flat (K. 361). The performance went fairly well, but showed several signs of insufficient rehearsal (in the first minuet, the bassoonist even played his entire solo one bar ahead of everyone else...
...Boston University Sol Hurok, impresario L.H.D...
...local Woolworth manager. He started as a window trimmer, became a store manager in Denver at 20, soon proved to have the proper mixture for success: administrative talent with the ability to get along with people. He bossed stores in five cities across the nation, became manager of the Boston district before being called to Manhattan in 1954. ¶ George L. Cobb, 47, president of Zeller's Ltd., a Canadian variety-store chain affiliated with W. T. Grant Co., was appointed president of S. H. Kress & Co., sixth-largest U.S. variety-store chain (261 stores). He succeeds...