Word: debutants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite such European praise, Cherkassky has not played in the U.S. in twelve years, and few U.S. concertgoers can even recall his early U.S. career. Son of an Odessa dentist, Shura emigrated to the U.S. with his family when he was eleven, made his concert debut in Baltimore when he was twelve, but never really succeeded on the concert circuit. At war's end, just as a whole new generation of pianists was growing up, Cherkassky headed for Europe, where he now gives about 80 concerts per season, is booked as long as five years in advance. All during...
Joseph Conrad's novel, Victory, makes its TV debut. Assisting Carney: Eric Portman, Lois Smith and Oscar Homolka...
Last week, just a year after making his debut in London with only a minimum of operatic training, the tenor was shuttling between London's Covent Garden, where he sang Canio in Pagliacci, and Amsterdam's Nederlandsche Opera, where he sang the notoriously difficult lead in Otello. The months of additional study at La Scala had not spoiled Philadelphia-born Leonard del Ferro, 31. European critics call him one of the most exciting male singers to come their way in years...
...editors of Who's Who in America opened their 31st edition, stuffed with some 56,000 bigger and lesser wigs, for a sneak preview. Making a unique father and daughter debut in Who's Who's pages are Actress Susan (The Diary of Anne Frank} Strasberg and Director-Teacher Lee Strasberg, chief methodologist of Manhattan's Actors' Studio. At 21, Susan has bumped Cinemactress Margaret (Journey for Margaret) O'Brien, now 23, out of the juniority honors that Margaret held in the current edition...
...performance of The Flying Dutchman the day after his death with the prelude to Act IV of Traviata. Earlier in the week Warren himself had supplied an even more fitting tribute when he appeared in a new production of Simon Boccanegra, in which he had made his little-noticed debut 21 years ago. Last week's revival (the first in a decade) benefited from some magnificently colorful sets, the muscular conducting of Dimitri Mitropoulos and fine performances from most of the cast. But the opera was chiefly Warren's, and during the denunciation of the villainous Paolo...