Word: consulates
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...find in a small country, working together as a balanced team, which you certainly won't find in Ireland." He feels that the solution lies in realistic, small-cast operas whose vocal parts can be mastered by nonoperatic singers. His models for Balbhan were Menotti's The Consul and The Telephone. He chose Gaelic because it "suits comedy and character singing better than English, and there is a wider range of sounds available...
Schippers has been a conductor, and one to reckon with, since he turned 20. Up to now, however, he has been known almost exclusively as a conductor of operas by Gian-Carlo Menotti. He led The Consul on Broadway for three months (in 1950) conducted The Medium when it was filmed in Italy, and led NBC's television performances of Amahl and the Night Visitors for the past two Christmases...
...Curtis Institute of Music at 14. At first, he studied organ and piano. But he got a chance to conduct the famed Philadelphia Orchestra in a student contest, and that changed his mind. He worked as a coach for the singers during the rehearsals of Menotti's Consul, got his chance to direct it after the opera had already opened on Broadway...
...Straits of Gibraltar in a stride, hop the Mediterranean, stand on capital and continent while they sing their lessons. As they learn arithmetic, they themselves represent numbers, move about like chessmen singing easy, arithmetic rhymes. In other classes, they act out Spain's history, impersonating the Roman Consul Galba, El Cid or Columbus...
...David K. E. Bruce, 55, banker and diplomat, to be special U.S. observer with the Interim Committee of the European Defense Community. Baltimore-born, Princeton-trained Dave Bruce has mixed law practice (1921-26), banking and private business (1928-40) with Government service: he was a vice-consul in Rome in the '20s, Assistant Secretary of Commerce in 1947-48, chief of the ECA in France in 1948-49, then became in turn Ambassador to France and Under Secretary of State in Washington...