Word: debutants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...soon developed a scholar's yen for analyzing music and a distaste for studying technique (although an interest in the problems of bowing once led him to study the anatomy of hand and arm and their motor controls). The son of a house painter, Stern made his Manhattan debut at 17 ("I wasn't the greatest thing since Mozart"), but had to wait seven more years before he was able to start a successful concert career. Now an almost compulsive concertizer, he is rarely in his Manhattan duplex, averages a brain-fogging 125 concerts and recitals a year...
...banquet honoring the 70th birthday of the father who once wanted him to go into the beauty-parlor-supply business, the New York Philharmonic's Leonard Bernstein, 43, won bravos from 800 guests by re-creating a work he had played when he was 13 at his piano debut at Boston's Temple Mishkan Tefila. "At the time," recalled the protean composer conductor, "I played variations of the song in the manner of Chopin, Liszt and Gershwin. Now I will play it in the manner of Bernstein." Then, as a proud Samuel Bernstein ("You don't expect...
...answer ultimate questions. At the age of 64, a distinguished U.S. man of letters, Thornton Wilder, has embarked on such a summing-up in a cycle of 14 one-act jMays divided into two groups, "The Seven Ages of Man" and "The Seven Deadly Sins." The off-Broadway debut of three of the playlets, two from the Man series (Infancy, Childhood) and one from the Sins series about lust (Someone from Assisi) is not auspicious...
...Washington's party-of-the-week. Diane ("Dede") Buchanan, 18, daughter of former State Department Protocol Chief Wiley Buchanan, made her debut in the stately gold-and-white Washington headquarters of the Organization of American States. Upstairs, the elegant elders made their way through a champagne supper to the soothing accompaniment of society's tried-and-true Music Maker Meyer Davis-who wrote for the occasion a number that began "Dede loves to travel and dance all night . . ." Downstairs, under a sign reading DEDE'S PEPPERMINT LOUNGE, the belle of the ball and her peer group rattled...
Straightaway (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Gloria Swanson's TV debut, as-guess what?-an aging film queen, accused of hit-and-run driving...