Word: debuted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...debut in Manhattan in 1888, the audience applauded and shouted so wildly that it had to be forcibly calmed by police. (Almost unnoticed in the excitement was another musician making his U.S. debut on the same program: a 13-year-old Viennese violinist billed as Master Fritz Kreisler.) Rosenthal's grand manner meant first-rate playing, but it also had plenty of the showman in it. Once, in Cincinnati, he played Liszt's Don Juan Fantaisie so thunderously that a piano leg fell off. As Rosenthal described it: "I had to play without the pedals. I finalized...
Almost everything went wrong at the Hollywood Bowl. Soprano Dorothy Maynor, the guest star, canceled her engagement because her mother had just died. A substitute chorus was ill-prepared, and a pinch-hitting baritone had to fall back on 01' Man River. So the U.S. debut last week of a talented Negro conductor, Rudolph Dunbar, 39, was a grim experience for everyone but him. Critics praised his crisp, authoritative conducting of the Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra...
Recently the British Guianan Government voted Dunbar ?5,000 for his "contributions to the Empire." One of the distractions at Dunbar's U.S. debut as conductor of a major symphony orchestra was the whirr of British newsreel cameras. Says Dunbar: "They want to show those films through the colonies and say 'Look what we have done for Dunbar'-but it is not the British who have done it for me, it is the Americans." But Empire Subject Dunbar is not sure he likes living in the U.S. Says he: "I think I will make my home...
...mean that it was in honor of handsome, white-haired Governor Dwight H. Green. But everybody in the grandstand had come to see bristling, ramrod-stiff Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, editor-publisher of the arch-nationalist Chicago Tribune. This was Bertie McCormick's day. Bertie was making his debut as unofficial commander of Illinois Republicans...