Word: debutitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Texan conquest of the Soviet Union this week, the Russians have to look back a century for a comparable triumph. That was when Franz Liszt, history's most vaunted piano virtuoso (and the teacher of the man who taught Van's first teacher-his mother), made his debut in St. Petersburg. Wearing Pope Pius IX's Order of the Golden Spur over his white cravat, his immaculate dress coat clanking with his other medals, his "shapely white hands" encased in doeskin gloves, he appeared, tossing his shoulder-length blond hair, before an audience...
...child, in the eleventh year of his parents' marriage. His father is a minor oil-company executive with a modest income, his mother a talented piano teacher who studied in New York with Liszt's longtime pupil, Arthur Friedheim. She was on the verge of making her debut under her maiden name, Rildia Bee O'Bryan, when her mother intervened and forbade her a concert career...
...Bach Society Orchestra conductors participated in the orchestra's final concert of the season Sunday night. The founder of the orchestra, Michael Greenebaum, led the first Boston performance of Berg's Kammerkonzert for Piano, Violin, and thirteen Wind Instruments; next year's conductor, John Harbison, made a brief debut; and Michael Senturia made his last appearance as conductor of the orchestra. It was a very nostalgic evening...
...Goya [Portrait of La Marquesa de Santa Cruz) looks more magnificent than ever in its proper place in the "softly lighted Spanish Gallery," and, of course, we are all very proud to have her. It was wonderful to be able to give her the kind of debut that you made for her [Los Angeles' Goya-April 14]. The article is excellent, and evidently is having an electrifying effect on friends and colleagues. The Marquesa even got a telegram of saludos and welcome from her three blacksmith countrymen in the Frick's Forge...
...come true. An impressive number of these U.S. tourists will carry a stowaway-Temple Hornaday Fielding. He conies handily packaged in a fact-and opinion-crammed, hard-cover container called Fielding's Travel Guide to Europe, 1958-59 (895 pp.; Sloane; $4.95). Annually revised since its '48 debut, Fielding's Guide has racked up growing sales (the publishers guard actual sales figures like a guilty secret) and established its author as the U.S. tourist's No. 1 travel guide, a modern Baedeker whom more people swear by than...