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...conductor on an early-morning train to New York asked boarding passengers. "What's the latest word?" In Grand Central Station, hundreds watched a waiting-room television screen. In Washington, a man walked down Connecticut Avenue staring into a portable, battery-powered TV set. In Palm Beach, President John Kennedy turned on a set in his bedroom. Back in New Concord, Ohio, Glenn's home town, more than 1,000 people tensely watched the TV monitors set up in the Muskingum College gymnasium. Along a seven-mile stretch of beach near Cape Canaveral, a crowd of some...
...Jackie was hostess at another of the White House parties she has initiated for performers of the fine arts. The guest of honor: famed Composer and occasional Pianist Igor Stravinsky, 79, a native of Russia who has been a U.S. citizen since 1946. The guests, including New York Philharmonic Conductor Leonard Bernstein, Chicago Merchant and Publisher Marshall Field Jr., and Jackie's sister Princess Radziwill, met in the Kennedys' private apartment for dinner and cocktails. Said the President to Stravinsky: "You have been through many things in your life. People have thrown sticks and tomatoes...
Fear of Tomatoes. The trouble started in December when Italian Tenor Ruggiero Bondino, 27, screeched out an unwritten high C in the first act of Traviata. "Bleater!" screamed the galleryites. "Go back and join your goatherd!" Later, for the benefit of Conductor Arturo Basile, they added: "Kill the conductor as well as the tenor!" Tenor Bondino beat a timorous retreat to his hotel under police escort. Early the next morning he fled back to Rome rather than face the en raged Parma gallery in other scheduled performances of Traviata. Soprano Rosanna Carteri, also appearing in Traviata, fainted from tension, wailed...
Following the Carteri incident, even veteran Soprano Renata Tebaldi lost her voice from fright before a Parma performance of Boheme ("I can't sing tonight; something has tightened my throat up," said she), and Conductor Basile, in an effort to appease the gallery, fired four of the weaker members of the cast. It was all too much for Milan's Opera Singers' Union. Unless the manners of the gallery improved, said the union, its singers would be forbidden to appear in Parma...
...Barber. Gallery spokesmen met with Conductor Basile and insisted: "We don't want the impossible, just the listenable." But in Parma, where almost everybody knows the operas of Verdi and Puccini by heart, and where youngsters pack the galleries instead of going to football games, the "listenable" is not easy to achieve. Tenors Corelli and Del Monaco, Sopranos Callas, Tebaldi and Stella, among others, have failed to achieve it. Famed Baritone Tito Gobbi fell so far short in a performance of The Barber of Seville that the opera was booed to a halt after the second act. Newspapers...