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Elliot Forbes '40, Fanny Peabody Professor of Music, will make his last appearance as conductor of the Harvard Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society tonight at Sanders Theatre. in a joint concert with the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra...
...been hailed in concerts and operas everywhere else. She also put in three years singing in provincial opera houses in Germany, an apprenticeship that left her able to cope with anything-including an orchestra pit so low that she lost a few bars because she could not see the conductor's baton. Subsequent triumphs at the San Francisco and Chicago Lyric Operas, Covent Garden and La Scala were proof of her versatility. In 1960, back in the U.S., she married Henry Lewis, a young Negro who now is conductor of the New Jersey Symphony. Though her white friends warned...
...Queen 15 years ago: "People change over 15 years, and the Queen is no exception." The Queen's comment, according to Annigoni: "She told me it looked better varnished." . . . The house lights dim over New York Philharmonic Hall. A hush falls upon the white-tie audience as Conductor Andre...
Cecil King, the autocratic chairman of Britain's International Publishing Corp., once waspishly characterized his protege, Editor Hugh Cudlipp, as "a very good first violin, but never really cast to be a conductor." Nevertheless, when King was deposed in a surprise boardroom revolt in 1968, I.P.C. directors picked Cudlipp as his successor. Ailing I.P.C. continued to flounder, so Cudlipp decided that he ought to turn in his baton and, as he put it, "get out my Stradivarius." Last week the Reed Group, a major British paper manufacturer, received government approval to take over I.P.C. for $304 million in stock...
Born. To Mia Farrow, 25, saucer-eyed cinema actress (most recently in John and Mary), and Andre Previn, 40, composer-conductor about town, currently leading the London Symphony Orchestra: their first children, twin boys; in London. Previn says that they plan to marry as soon as he is divorced from his estranged wife; Mia Divorced Frank Sinatra in August...