Word: debutitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Scherchen is trailed virtually everywhere he goes by four students whom he accepts only on condition that they will spend three years with him ("My requirements from my students are so extravagant that they have little time for personal life"). Himself a onetime viola prodigy, he made his conducting debut with the Berlin Philharmonic when he was 20. In his years of battling for new works, he has developed a reputation of being the timpani-tempered tyrant of European music. He generally bans composers from rehearsals of their own works, never hesitates to cut whole passages from new works...
Breakfast at Tiffany's, by Truman Capote. Holly Golightly, fiction's most captivating bad little good girl since Sally ("I Am a Camera") Bowles, makes her ribald, touching and irresistible debut...
...girls selected for the 1958 season will compose the Women's Auxiliary Cheering Squad, to make its debut at the Yale game, Nov. 22 in the Stadium. The Kuties will, it is hoped, provide a more attractive substitute for the beleaguered Harvard Cheerleading Squad and act as a permanent solution in the dispute between the cheerleaders and the Undergraduate Athletic Council...
Mario Del Monaco, 39, tenor, singing opposite Tebaldi in this week's opening Tosca. Endowed with the most glorious top register in all opera, Del Monaco came to the Met in 1952 after serving in the Italian army and making his big-time debut at Covent Garden. Short, stocky and a shouter, Del Monaco commands ringing B-flats that have made a name for him in all the roles-Pagliacci's Canio, Samson, Aïda's Radames-in which vocal volume, height and brilliance are needed simultaneously. His interpretation of Otello, by critical consensus...
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Germany's famed Maria Schell (TIME, Dec. 30) makes her American TV debut in Word from a Sealed-Off Box, a play about four prisoners in Nazi-occupied Holland; the story is from the book The Walls Came Tumbling Down, by Henriette Roosenburg. Also in the cast: Jean Pierre Aumont, Betsy von Furstenberg...