Word: britten
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fadden also reported that Stanley Britten, a six-foot, three inch sophomore end, sprained an ankle during Tuesday's practice, and did not realize it until late Tuesday night. It is doubtful whether Britten, first siring defensive right end, will be able to play against the Lions...
...berths in Broadway's 17 unoccupied theaters. As usual, playgoers can look forward to a full schedule of musicals : Lindsay & Grouse's Call Me Madam, boasting Ethel Merman, an Irving Berlin score, and a $700,000 advance sale; Cole Porter's Out of This World; Benjamin Britten's novelty musical Let's Make an Opera. For mid-fall production, Broadway will import British Dramatist Christopher Fry's The Lady's Not for Burning (with John Gielgud) and Aldous Huxley's The Giaconda Smile...
...some of the festival's choral numbers, he had assembled 1,800 singers, including some 600 children. Once the enthusiasm had to be coaxed out of the kids. Rehearsing Benjamin Britten's Spring Symphony, Busch urged the boys to make their whistling less "polite"; he promptly got a resounding wolf whistle, and smiled his appreciation. Said he: "They know their stuff. I bring it out of them...
...with his freshness of dramatic invention, Menotti has been more successful at putting opera over in the U.S. than any other composer of his own generation. English Composer Benjamin Britten has had spectacular success in grand opera houses with his bigger and more traditional opera Peter Grimes, and his chamber operas Albert Herring and Let's Make an Opera are successful in Britain and Europe. His lone Broadway production, The Rape of Lucretia, was a flop...
...Smith faculty and students played and sang some of the music they thought would please him most. It ranged from 16th and 17th Century Italian madrigals that Musicologist Einstein himself had unearthed and edited, to Mozart and Schubert quartets and compositions by 20th Century Composers Roger Sessions and Benjamin Britten. Old and new, the music was done to Scholar Einstein's taste...