Word: debutants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...confusion there is of great, near-great and merely good concert pianists-set out to rank the best of them, and chose four. He seems to have survived the ordeal well: his choices were not seriously challenged. This week, on the occasion of Joan Sutherland's much-cheered debut at the Metropolitan Opera, Murphy dares to rank the greatest sopranos of the day. He finds six outstanding. Readers are again invited to disagree-or even, if they wish, to agree...
...debut on Capitol Hill came at an inauspicious time. The Republican Party was going through one of its darkest periods: there were just 16 G.O.P. members in the Senate. Bridges soon established himself as a staunch conservative and, as a ranking member of the Appropriations Committee (which he chaired during four sessions of Congress), a merciless money trimmer. But his conservatism applied mostly to domestic matters. Before World War II, he fought hard for Lend-Lease and increased military appropriations; after the war, he joined with Michigan's Republican Senator Arthur Vandenberg to back the Marshall Plan...
...finally had a feather in his cap that wasn't macaroni. Achieving the "fondest dream" of his 70 years, would-be Basso Profundo Buitoni hired Manhattan's Carnegie Hall and packed it with friends and employees from his Hackensack, N.J., headquarters to make a rafter-rattling concert debut. Belting out arias from Rigoletto and Ernani, the Italian-born industrialist brought the momentous evening to a wildly bravoed climax by joining Metropolitan Opera Star Licia Albanese in a duet from Don Giovanni and smothering her with kisses as a reward for "carrying" him. "As Don Juan," appraised...
...special American accolade, a sustained roar that lasted for twelve minutes and through ten curtain calls. Never, confessed the Commander later, had she "heard such sound from the throats of an audience"-and rarely had a modern audience heard such sound from a singer. In her triumphant Met debut-in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor-Soprano Joan Sutherland demonstrated even to the doubters that she is the most accomplished technician in all opera...
EILEEN FARRELL, 41, made her leisurely way to the Metropolitan last season, long after critics had conceded she was the best dramatic soprano in America. "It didn't give me any special satisfaction to sing at the Met," she said coolly after her debut in Gluck's Alcestis. "I never had any great drive to be a singer." The drive may not have been great, but almost from the start the singing was. A onetime successful radio singer, with her own show, Farrell soon branched into recitals and concert-form operas, where she displayed a warm, vibrant voice...