Word: debutitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...controversial Mme. C. doubtless has earned her news space, but in this year of the Callas Met debut, may one respectfully request equal time for several other singers whose careers are based on their beautiful voices? Such artists have come by their fame the only way an operatic artist should-by their voices and not by their tantrums or their psychotic revenge drives...
Offstage, Pianist Haskil is a plain woman who wears no makeup to conceal the traces of suffering that line her face, but her features are livened by wisdom and humor. She was a prodigy, made her debut in Vienna at the age of nine, and won a Grand Prix at the Paris Conservatory at 14. After World War I, illness forced her into temporary retirement; later she took up playing sonatas with such greats as Ysaye, Enesco, Casals. She has appeared at the Casals festivals in France, and it was one of her younger colleagues there, Pianist Eugene Istomin...
...lanky, 22-year-old pianist named Philippe Entre-mont had his own triumph. When he auditioned for the Philadelphia Orchestra two years ago. Conductor Eugene Ormandy called him "one of the great younger pianists of our day." hired him on the spot. Last week Entremont made his Philadelphia debut-with a spiky-rhythmed modern concerto by France's Andre Jolivet, and Rachmaninoff's caramel-flavored...
Britain's Manchester Guardian, which rose from a provincial weekly to become one of the world's most famed newspapers, will mark an event this week that has occurred only four times before in its 101 years as a daily: the debut of a new editor. To replace shy, stubby (5 ft. 5 in.) A. P. (for Alfred Powell) Wadsworth, who is stepping down at 65 because of ill health, the Guardian will install 36-year-old Foreign Editor Hector Alastair Hetherington, a journalist for only ten years and a staffer...
Soprano Callas has yet to face the ordeal of her Metropolitan debut next week. It is an ordeal that has yielded severe criticisms for such famed prima donnas as Melba. Sembrich, Nordica and Farrar, and conceivably could be a bitter experience for her as well. But Callas has faced bitter experiences before and triumphantly survived them. "People would like to see me flop, just once," she admits. "Well, I can't and I won't. I will never give any satisfaction to my enemies...