Word: busches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Busch-Reisinger Museum yesterday ended the first of a series of afternoon recorded organ concerts by E. Power Biggs. The program, given from 4 to 4:30 p.m. every day since Monday, featured records of Bach organ selections...
...designing, staging and direction is the work of Hans Busch, 36, son of famed Conductor Fritz Busch. Hans, who studied stagecraft wherever his father happened to be conducting, e.g., in Dresden and at Britain's Glyndebourne, where he worked under Carl Ebert, is now an associate professor on the Indiana faculty. He also works at outside assignments. This winter he made his bow at the Met with a restyled (but not unanimously praised) Cavalleria Rusticana (TIME...
Hoffman and Busch have not yet turned Bloomington into a backwoods Bayreuth, but their Parsifal is beginning to establish a strong little tradition...
...overhaul job, General Manager Rudolf Bing had turned to the Met's own staff of directors and set designers. Staff Director Hans Busch planned to give "Cav," a turbulent little tragedy of Sicilian chivalry, a thoroughly realistic treatment. He slipped up on some details. Sample: when cuckolded Alfio challenged swaggering Seducer Turiddu, Alfio stood well back, out of all possible harm's way, looking considerably more foolish than furious. But despite such incongruities, and the fussy set and cluttered stage that offended Critic Downes, the singing (notably by Tenor Richard Tucker and Soprano Zinka Milanov) almost turned Cavalleria...
...Right Man. John Christie took a liking to the likable, competent Viennese, hired him to work under Ebert and Busch. He found Bing useful to have around. Among other things, Bing thought up some ideas for persuading music lovers to travel 60 miles from London into the Sussex countryside to enjoy Mozart. One of them - gift vouchers at Christmas which could be exchanged for Glyndebourne seats- is still in use. Says John Christie, who is proud of having a former assistant running the Met: "He's the right...