Word: di
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Poised and winsome throughout, Di committed only one small gaffe. Presented with a set of small silver bowls, she instinctively flipped one over to check the hallmark. She avoided the same mistake later, when a group of Welsh farmers presented her with two other gifts: Sandra, a seven-month-old heifer, and a ewe. "I am sorry there is only one of her," said the pleased Charles at one point. "I haven't got enough wives to go around...
Mstislav Rostropovich was there, wrapping his cello in a warm Russian bear hug as he dashed off two movements of a Haydn concerto. Violinists Itzhak Perlman and Isaac Stern were on hand too, the picture of collegial conviviality in a Vivaldi double concerto. Soprano Leontyne Price, the diva di tutte le dive, sang arias by Verdi, Richard Strauss and Puccini with resplendent warmth and freshness. And there was Pianist Rudolf Serkin, happily singing along as he performed in Beethoven's Choral Fantasy. At the end, Isaac Stern struck up Happy Birthday, and 2,600 fashionably dressed folk in Symphony...
...gentleman to his right, Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn, 54. The veteran actor was set to throw out the ceremonial first ball at last week's World Series opener. Then Kuhn invoked a policy that excludes actors and politicians from "first-ball ceremonies," and substituted former Yankee Great Joe Di Maggio, 66. Fans and press protested so loudly that Kuhn, with unaccustomed nimbleness, swiftly re-evaluated Cagney as "a national treasure" and gave his blessing for him to throw out the first ball of the second game. When Cagney finally delivered his pitch, it was a Yankee-Doodle dandy...
...Full Moon in March. The past 15 months brought two major premieres: the Violin Concerto, which he wrote for his violinist wife Rose Mary, and the Piano Concerto, which won the Kennedy Center prize. Earlier this month in Santa Fe, two new Harbison works got their first performances. Mottetti di Montale is a darkly elegiac, 50-minute song cycle based on po ems by Eugenio Montale, the Italian poet who won the 1975 Nobel Prize for Literature. The Piano Quintet is a spare and acerbic five-movement work commissioned by the festival and dedicated to Artist Georgia O'Keeffe...
...respite from reality." And though the recorded voice of Vera Lynn was summoned up, singing There'll Always Be an England ("If England means as much to you/ As England means to me"), and though NBC'S John Hart took a smarmy look at Lady Di's old school to see how proper English girls got their special "edge," a casual television viewer might conclude that the wedding and perhaps royalty itself were magnificently irrelevant...