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...larger number of Czech buses, recently supplemented by Chinese-made trackless trolley, are generally overcrowded. People wait in orderly lines until the buses come and then scramble for the door, the conductor bodily pushing the last few persons aboard. Frequently the conductor makes the trip to the next stop hanging halfway ou the door, trying to force...
Married. Thomas Schippers, 35, brilliant, boyishly handsome conductor of New York's Metropolitan Opera Co.; and Elaine Lane ("Nonie") Phipps, 26, socialite daughter of Palm Beach's former ten-goal-rated polo star, Michael Phipps; in Manhattan...
...seriously disturbed by the incident of discrimination which marred the Glee Club's Spring tour through the South. Because he is a Negro, Archie C. Epps, assistant dean of the College and assistant conductor of the club, was denied--by an officer of Harvard University--the right to sing in a Glee Club octet on Birmingham television. Though no one doubts the good intentions of Professor Forbes, his judgment in this case was questionable...
WAGNER: DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NüRNBERG (RCA Victor; 5 LPs). There is no single coruscating star unless it is Conductor Joseph Keilberth, who makes the long score snap with life rarely caught even when recorded, as this was, during a performance (the opening of the rebuilt National Theater in Munich). Basses Otto Wiener and Hans Hotter give their well-established interpretations as Hans Sachs and Veit Pogner, but the freshest voices belong to two Americans, Soprano Claire Watson as Eva and Tenor Jess Thomas as Walther...
Eighteen times Choreographer Robbins, Conductor Leonard Bernstein, Set Designer Oliver Smith, dancers, musicians and singers were called back by the applause, until the great gold-brocade curtain got stuck and refused to drop and rise again for another...