Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This time, the organizers set out to learn just what Brooklyn wanted. They rang doorbells, stopped citizens on the streets, questioned 8,000 people. Findings: most people who were likely to come and listen wanted two concerts a month and thought a $2 top for tickets about right; only 18% wanted an all-symphonic program. 58% wanted them "usually" symphonic; 75% preferred pianists as soloists; more wanted to hear contraltos than sopranos. But above all, Brooklyn wanted to have opera-at least in concert performance...
...Bright Promise. Last week, opera was among the things they got. For his new Brooklyn Symphony's first concert...
...pride before the orchestra even played a note. A well-played Beethoven Fifth had them applauding at the end of each movement, but the Don Carlos brought down the house. Then came a pranking Till Eulenspiegel and (for an encore) one of Conductor Zipper's native Viennese waltzes. Brooklyn loved it. Breathed perspiring Conductor Zipper: "I'm so grateful...
...just a starter. The Brooklyn Symphony was playing only twice this season. But, beamed one Brooklynite: "As they say at Ebbets Field, wait till next year...
Philadelphia (A) "B" 3, Brooklyn...