Word: debuted
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Head & Heart. When Crespin made her Met debut last fall, a critical audience was as startled by her temerity as it was pleased by her voice. Lehmann herself-the peerless Marschallin-had returned at 74 to coach the new singer, but Crespin clearly had ideas of her own. "We have met an impasse," Crespin said, then went onstage to offer a compromise interpretation of the role that even Lehmann had to admire. True to her introspective notion of Strauss's aging princess, Crespin sang the first act at fingertip touch, hiding her immense voice behind a melancholy that...
...Standard's goal in the U.S. is to overtake second-place Renault, whose U.S. sales last year slipped from 44,000 to about 34,000. This week the car that Standard-Triumph is betting on to do the trick will make its U.S. debut at the Miami auto show. It is the Spitfire, a racy two-seater sports car which is a little brother of the TR-4, last year's bestselling imported sports car in the U.S. Priced at $2,199 in the Eastern U.S., the Spitfire has roll-up windows, road-clinging independent four-wheel suspension...
...comeback. "I took a long, cool look at conducting," he says Of course I liked the power and prestige being a conductor- but did I really have anything to say?" After deciding that he did, he began to build his new career, using as touchstones his La Scala debut (". . . the finest since Toscanini, icy told me . . .") and his debut at Bayreuth the Teutonic holy of holies. I was the first American and the young est man ever to appear there," Maazel says, and it was beautiful." Soon he was second only to Herbert von Karajan as Europe's darling...
When he made his debut as conductor of the New York Philharmonic in 1940 Lorin Maazel was a plump little child, no taller than a cello and braver than a flute. "I have yet to prove my mettle," said the ten-year-old maestro after climbing down from the podium where he had proved himself a wizard. Last week, at 32 Maazel was again before the Philharmonic, a wizard with plenty of mettle, especially by his own reckoning. "I am considered " he proclaimed, "the leading conductor of my generation...
...critics were baiting their prodigy traps. After he made his November debut with the Metropolitan Opera they sprang: "hand to mouth" conducting said one, adding that Maazel is a martinet whose merciless, metronomic beat is in fact, a mask that covers weakness and insecurity. Such talk may have momentarily quieted Maazel, but it did not shake his confidence. Last week at Philharmonic Hall, he led a Beethoven Fifth Symphony in which fate really did seem to knock at the door; under Maazel. the horns spoke high German, and the double basses, which before had hidden shyly in the hall...