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Good Italian ballerinas are about as scarce as Russian boccie bowlers. But audiences at La Scala last week cheered a 23-year-old dancer, daughter of a Milan streetcar conductor, who was all but stealing the stage from Britain's famed Margot Fonteyn. Occasion: the world premiere of Fantasy at Grand Hotel, starring Ballerina Carla Fracci...
...begins one of the most hilarious wedding nights of recent film history. Yul is a terrible-tempered conductor who "uses symphony orchestras the way [other people] use Kleenex." Kay, his mistress of many years, is tired of it all, wants to marry a nice, respectable college president and live like a human being. So she has married Yul so she can get a divorce so the college president will think he is getting an honest woman. But Yul, cad that he is, has no intention of divorce...
Rapidly emerging as the most brilliant young conductor now before U.S. audiences is the Metropolitan Opera's Kalamazoo-born Thomas Schippers, 29. At the season's first Forza del Destino last week, Schippers showed what he could do with an orchestra that only the week before, at the opening of Fidelia (TIME, Feb. 8), had sounded ragged and disorganized. "Tommy" Schippers had never conducted Verdi's Forza before, but he led orchestra and singers (Soprano Leonie Rysanek, Tenor Richard Tucker, both in top form) with a muscular authority that injected grand drama into every twist and turn...
Pickup Jobs. One day next month, tall, handsome Conductor Schippers (6 ft. 3 in., 175 Ibs.) will celebrate two milestones: his 30th birthday ("at last") and the tenth anniversary of his debut as a conductor (in Gian Carlo Menotti's The Consul). Although he has moved farther and faster than any other U.S. conductor in the last decade, Schippers shows little of the hungry will to succeed that has always characterized that earlier Wunderkind, Leonard Bernstein. Nor does Schippers have Composer-Conductor-Pianist Bernstein's determination to be a Renaissance man-about-music. When he decided to become...
...moved to Philadelphia's Curtis Institute. After graduation he got a series of pickup jobs that led to Consul (he caught Composer Menotti's attention while coaching singers for the show) and to the Met, which signed him as the third U.S.-born regular conductor in its 77-year history...