Word: debutants
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What is more surprising is that Marti Stevens ever got to be a professional singer. As a youngster she had a French governess, later had a society debut, and was supposed to settle down into the life of a well-to-do Manhattanite. But Marti was-the eldest daughter of Movie Magnate Nicholas M. Schenck. She never got over the procession of show-business stars who came visiting at the Schenck household when Marti was in pigtails. "I just sat in a corner and watched those wonderful people do their tricks." In her teens, she started to collect Helen Morgan...
Philosophy First. Although he has successfully stormed Europe's capitals, Julius Katchen is little known in his own country. The son of a pianist-mother and amateur-violinist father, he made his debut as an eleven-year-old prodigy with the Philadelphia Orchestra and played with the best U.S. orchestras and in solo recitals until...
...September) is literally late Composer Strauss's last work. All are sung with melting beauty and ease by Vienna State Opera Diva Delia Casa, who this season made her Metropolitan debut...
...deeply carved with the initials of early members who had heard that the editors of Punch possessed a similar piece. Huge oak beams form a ceiling of gothic arches, and the sun streams diagonally through leaded windows flecked with remnants of ancient stained glass. The building's Cambridge debut caused no little comment from local journalists. Most outspoken was the Evening Transcript, which called it an "architectural joke...
Last-minute substitutions are something of a specialty with Roberta. She made her Met debut as a fillin, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, three years ago. Since then she has answered several other fire calls, including two for Gilda in Rigoletto (for Hilde Gueden and Genevieve Warner), one for Adele in Fledermaus (for Virginia MacWatters). But Soprano Peters is more than a high-class fireman...