Word: debuts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heard the beginnings of the astonishing performance-the sort of huge sound that Anton Rubinstein reputedly possessed -and taped it. The discovery was akin to some great archaeological find. The pianist was Ervin Nyiregyházi (pronounced near-edge-hah-zee), a Hungarian-born prodigy who made his debut at six, toured Europe as a Wunderkind and conquered Carnegie Hall in 1920, at 17. Then, following a string of public and private disasters, including the first of nine marriages, he vanished from public view...
...marks the directing debut of Cinematographer John A. Alonzo (Chinatown), who here reveals some rather provocative notions about film making. FM seems to be two hours of unedited footage thrown together without regard for the admittedly old-fashioned niceties of narrative movies; indeed, at any given moment, it is impossible to decipher what is going on in FM or to identify the characters onscreen. It is also quite difficult to make out what anyone is saying. In what must be the most innovative use of sound since Woody Allen's What's Up, Tiger Lily? (1966), Alonzo...
...Spanish island of Majorca and painting portraits for $350 and up. Now that baseball players are free at last, Flood, 40, has returned to the game as a radio broadcaster for the Oakland A's. "I'm as nervous as a rookie," he said before his debut, where he made a hit with his delivery but struck out on analysis. "I've been kidded," he said modestly, "that my job is to catch foul balls headed for the booth...
...loud mouthed boy (Bobby DiCicco) tries to chop down the Sullivan show's transmitter because he knows that the Beatles mean the death of his macho '50s-greaser style. But history cannot be stopped, and the film ends with an ingenious restaging of the Beatles' TV debut. The scene is surprisingly affecting. Perhaps because things have so settled down since, it is very moving to relive that romantic Sunday night when the young seemed to inherit the earth...
...Mount Royal Brass Quintet, comprised of members of the Faculty of Music of McGill University, Montreal, performs its Boston debut on May 15. The year-old group will play brass works by Bach, Dahl, le Jeune, Calvert, Schuller, and Ewald...