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...organization, and I couldn't get a job," he recalls. "They told me I was too old or too young. Some people told me to my face, 'We don't employ black or colored people.' " Angry and humiliated, he took a job as a bus conductor-inappropriate, he thought, for a college graduate. Working double shifts, 16 and sometimes 20 hours a day, living in a slum on tea and biscuits, he saved enough money to take a full-time accounting course and move to London. There he found the color barrier even harder to penetrate...
Puccini: La Rondine (CBS Masterworks). Kiri Te Kanawa, Placido Domingo and Conductor Lorin Maazel star in Puccini's unaccountably neglected confectioner's delight...
Shoppers seem to feel a sense of urgency this year, inspired partly by spot shortages of such popular gifts as exercise wear and stuffed toys. Said Michael Brownlow, a railroad conductor from Doraville, Ga., who took a day off last week to shop in a suburban Atlanta mall: "If you wait until the last minute, things will be gone. I had to get up Sunday morning and stand in line for half an hour just to get one of the toys my son wanted." Parents often have to act like detectives to find such other scarce playthings as Return...
Bunuel discusses the development of his directing career with the same nonchalance, so that it too seems a series of social events and friendships. His second professional directing experience involved the world-famous conductor Mengelbert in a puppet opera-based on an episode from Don Quixote. Bunuel comments, "Of course, I got my friends to play the silent parts...the work was performed a few times in Amsterdam and played to packed houses. The first evening, however, I'd completely forgotten to arrange for lighting, so the audience saw very little." His career must have been launched by, among other...
Crowley remained in Cambridge where he worked as a freelance conductor, a music teacher (at a private school), and a staff librarian at MIT in the Humanities division, where students mostly do "free-time leisure reading...