Word: carlos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gian-Carlo Menotti...
...were as ready as they would ever be. At a series of watch-tick signals, 328 grim-faced drivers from 18 nations set out from such widely scattered starting points as Lisbon, Palermo, Oslo, Glasgow, Munich, Stockholm. Their goal, some 3,300 roundabout kilometers (2,000 miles) away: Monte Carlo -and a million francs (about $3,000) first prize...
...annual (since 1911) Monte Carlo Rally, which ended last week, is not the world's longest or fastest race, but is certainly one of the most exacting ever devised for man or machine. At the finish, some 72 grinding hours later, only 16 of the mud-spattered cars crossed the line unpenalized by some form of delay, breakdown or accident, or for missing the deadline at one of the obligatory checkpoints along the route...
...three brothers finished their musical training in Berlin, then went separate ways. Efrem got his big chance to conduct with the Berlin Philharmonic in 1921; Edmund made his concert debut in Rome in 1924. After nine years in Stuttgart, and another nine conducting the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo orchestra on international tours, Efrem settled down in the U.S., built up the Kansas City Philharmonic for five years before moving on to Houston. Edmund made his U.S. debut as a virtuoso in 1945. Meanwhile, their eldest brother, Arved, had become an educator; he now heads the New York College...
...York City Opera announced a spring season in the best Halasz tradition. In addition to eleven operas from current repertory, it promised productions of i) Alban Berg's tragic opera, Wozzeck, which no U.S. audience has seen in 21 years, 2) a stage version of Gian-Carlo Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors, and 3) a new adaptation, by Marc Blitzstein, of Kurt Weill's The Three-Penny Opera. Possible hitch: Halasz, who is still fighting his year-end dismissal (TIME, Dec. 31), contends that, under his last contract, none of last year's repertory...