Word: debutants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lohengrin was intended to be the vehicle for Wieland Wagner's long-awaited U.S. debut, but when he died three months ago at 49, his production was entrusted to his assistant, Peter Lehmann. Still, symbolically, Wieland was there. And fittingly so, for symbolism was his stock in trade. Lohengrin was garbed in heroic gold, Elsa in innocent white, Telramund in malevolent black, Ortrud in sinister green. In the background were painted stylized designs of a madonna, a dove and a swan. The swan, unfortunately, looked more like a Boeing 707, but, said Lehmann, "I wouldn't dare change...
Coach Cooney Weiland is leaning toward his scrappy sophomores, the only bright spot in the discouraging loss to the Eastern Olympics Saturday. Pete Mueller and Barry Johnson, who got two goals each in their varsity debut, will be wings on the third line, with George Murphy in the center...
Harvard, after four road games, was slow and sloppy in the first period of its home debut, and had sophomore goalie Bill Diercks to thank for the scoreless tie after the first 20 minutes...
...door on Main Street or in Greenwich Village. And if Glackens' peachy women have downcast eyes, it is not from sadness but wistfulness for a world that would never be the same. They seem ready to hope more than to rejoice, like closeted daughters waiting to make a debut and sport their beauty-which both they, and American art, were about to do, in fewer years than even the most optimistic imagined...
...last week was the performance of Welsh Soprano Gwyneth Jones. A tall, flame-haired import from London's Covent Garden, she was a marvelously malevolent partner for Baritone Mario Zanasi as Macbeth, repeatedly thrilled the audience with her heroic, ringing voice. Jones's appearance marked her U.S. debut, and is the latest in a long string of firsts for the Dallas Civic Opera. The company, in fact, like its older cousins in San Francisco and Chicago, has introduced so many topflight opera singers to the U.S.-among them Joan Sutherland, Montserrat Caballe, Jon Vickers-that its productions...