Word: debutants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...music's finest old traditions is that young conductors must make their debuts only when calamity strikes the maestro and leaves the podium bare. Last week at the Holland Festival in Amsterdam, Viennese Actress Paula Wessely had a nervous breakdown and Russian Cellist David Rostropovich had a heart attack, setting the emotional stage for the illness of Conductor Paul Sacher, scheduled to lead the Dutch Chamber Orchestra. Aging Conductor Pierre Monteux, 88, promptly appeared on the scene with his protégé in his pocket. "My pupil," said Monteux, "he's great. He reminds...
Such criticisms plainly dictated a shift in Administration strategy. In mid-May the President announced that he would soon send a package of civil rights measures to Congress. Since then the debut has been twice postponed while Justice Department lawyers worked over the details. Scheduled to be dispatched to Capitol Hill this week, the President's package consists of four proposals that would: 1) extend the life of the Civil Rights Commission for four years, 2) fortify voting rights, 3) give the Attorney General broadened authority to intervene in school-segregation cases, 4) ban discrimination in hotels, motels...
Pianists Malcolm Frager and Vladimir Ashkenazy have been fast friends ever since 1958, when Ashkenazy made his American debut. Frager was introduced as a magna cum laude Russian student at Columbia, and shy Ashkenazy greeted him like a deus ex machina friend...
...Century Brenda Diana Duff Frazier, 42 (now Mrs. Robert Chatfield-Taylor), and First Husband John Sims ("Shipwreck") Kelly, 53. When the proud parents powwowed at their old Stork Club stamping ground, both agreed there will be none of that coming-out foolishness for Victoria. "Too many people see the debut as a goal," declares Brenda, "but perspective is more important. I want my daughter to have a full life." Recently ill, the former Glamour Girl admits that her own perspective was improved by two years of psychoanalysis. "I'm very happy now-and looking forward, not backward...
...peerless master of French jazz, and everywhere in Europe he is greeted like a visiting professor. But when he arrived in Manhattan for his American debut, his boat docked in a puddle of regulations. Not a word could be said of him until the clerks had had their day. When Union Card, Cabaret Card, and Social Security Card had legalized his presence at last, and the cognoscenti heard that Martial Solal was playing the piano at the Hickory House, the coolest ones dropped everything to go and hear...