Word: coventionalism
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...Bruce, spent Tuesday working on two music stories. One was on Sir William Walton's first opera. Troilus and Cressida (see Music). She was digging up background on the composer and his music so that the writer in New York would have this information before the premiere in Covent Garden. This done, she got ready to go to Leicestershire to track down a lead on a story that looked like a good bet for TIME'S Music section in the future...
...time by Conductor van Beinum, who succeeded the late Willem Mengelberg as its head in 1946. Half the concerts will be led by Czech-born Rafael Kubelik, 40, who conducted the Chicago Symphony for three stormy years and next fall will become musical director of London's Covent Garden Opera. Before the Concertgebouw leaves for home on Dec. 4, it will play such major U.S. cities as Washington, D.C., Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia...
...according to McNair Ilgenfritz' will, the offer will go, successively, to London's Covent Garden, Sadler's Wells, the Paris Opéra, the Paris Opéra-Comique, and the opera houses of Monte Carlo, Nice and Brussels. If, after 21 years, none accepts the bequest, the money will go to a memorial foundation to build a concert hall in Newport, R.I., where Ilgenfritz used to spend his summers...
Britons, proud of their Sadler's Wells Ballet Company, were never more sure of their pride than last week. Back home to London's Covent Garden came the company after a triumphant 19-week, 24-city tour of the U.S. and Canada, during which Sadler's Wells netted more than $600.000 beyond expenses. Dollar triumph aside. London was simply glad to have Sadler's Wells back. Usually reserved Covent Gardeners gave them tier upon tier of applause at each solo entrance (in a full-length Sleeping Beauty, all but brought down the venerable house when Prima...
Said Ballerina Fonteyn: "I've never known it to happen before at Covent Garden. It makes a wonderful difference to be applauded when you first...