Word: bruno
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...production of Carmen at La Scala. After that, Sciutti opened every season at La Piccola Scala (La Scala's intimate, 700-seat annex, specializing in rarely done or light operas). Elsewhere, she has shown her great versatility by singing everything from Mozart's Requiem (under Bruno Walter), to a TV performance of The Merry Widow, to Polly Peachum in Weill's Threepenny Opera. Soprano Sciutti is married to a former operatic bass from Seattle named Bob Wahoski, who long ago abandoned music to form his own European Travel Service, which ferries U.S. tourists through Europe in Cadillacs...
...Bruno Walter is 84, Fritz Reiner 72, Charles Munch 69, Pierre Monteux...
Possibly St. Robert Bellarmine was "a human bridge." But he was far less "trampled upon" than himself a trampler. He was connected with the Inquisition which, among its other crimes, was responsible for the horrible burning of the heretic philosopher, Giordano Bruno. It is a terrible sort of separation of church and state that makes it possible for the church to turn over a heretic to be burned by the secular...
Last week's crisis recalled another sub stitution-in 1943, when Lenny himself filled in for the ailing Bruno Walter and scored an immediate hit. On that storied occasion, Lenny had a morning to prepare; Millar had four minutes. Still in his business suit, he whipped the orchestra through a workmanlike performance...
Counting Showers. For many years Professor Bruno Rossi of M.I.T. has hunt ed for cosmic rays above this critical limit. The original energy of a cosmic ray can be measured by counting the second-ary particles that it showers down on the earth after colliding with air molecules in the high atmosphere. If its energy is 1016 (io million billion) electron volts, it generates millions of particles, mostly electrons and mesons which spread over many acres of ground. More powerful rays give even bigger showers...