Word: debuted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pianist Cortot, who had served Vichy as secretary for music and was forbidden to play for two years after the liberation, raised a noise by making his postwar debut. Cortot played the piano and the audience made the noise. The orchestra refused to accompany him, walked off stage. "Collaborationist!" yelled some of the audience. "Vive Cortot!" shouted others. Competing choruses of praise and damnation drowned out the music. Cortot grimly stuck to his keyboard, kept playing through the hubbub, finally won silence. At concert's end: an ovation...
...signed her to sing Juliette in Berlioz's dramatic symphony Romeo et Juliette, and Stokowski chose her to sing the mezzo-soprano solo in the U.S. premiere of Prokofiev's cantata, Alexander Nevsky. Says Jennie: "All of a sudden everything came to me." After her Town Hall debut in 1943, the New York Herald Tribune's Virgil Thomson wrote: "Miss Tourel's conquest . . . was . . . without any local parallel since Kirsten Flagstad's debut at the Metropolitan Opera House some nine seasons...
Captain Donald Louria is set for the 165-pound class. At 175 Frank Powell, a Jayvee football player last fall, will make his debut. Pete Fuller will be in the unlimited class for the Crimson...
...Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Copland's Outdoor Overture, Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony. Conductor: Hungarian Eugen Szenkar, appearing in his U.S. debut...
...Princeton, N.J., Jean Casadesus, 21-year-old son (and pupil) of Pianists Robert and Gaby Casadesus, rehearsed one of his father's favorite pieces-Ravel's Piano Concerto-for his concert debut this spring with the Philadelphia Orchestra...