Word: ever
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scheduled tour would have taken ten to twelve weeks, would have included a two-week stand in Moscow, plus such stops as Milan, Athens, Berlin, Brussels and Paris, and probably Cairo, Baalbek, Santander and Warsaw. It was not only the longest European tour ever scheduled for a U.S. orchestra, but also would have been the Chicago Symphony's first overseas tour in its 68-year history. The only trouble with it, argued 7O-year-old Conductor Reiner, was that it would leave the orchestra "miserably worn out" for its regular Chicago season. The explanation did not satisfy the musicians...
...burn the score. I will prepare the fire, and I will personally put Falstaff and his stomach on the flames." So wrote fiery-tempered, 79-year-old Composer Giuseppe Verdi in a letter to his publisher in 1892. But Verdi, who had already received one of the handsomest premiums ever offered a composer, was persuaded not to burn Falstaff. Along with the originals of Verdi's 26 other operas, it was long stored in Milan in a plain brownstone office building at No. 2 Via Berchet, not far from La Scala. The opera house is more famous...
...branch offices in a dozen countries, and a chain of Italian retail stores. But Tito was unpopular and dictatorial, resigned in 1919. The business passed to Accountant Renzo Valcarenghi and Composer-Stage Designer Carlo Clausetti, whose sons now run the firm. Today Casa Ricordi is doing brisker business than ever, despite World War II bomb damage. The firm remains stiffly self-conscious about its artistic obligations, maintains a string of opera scouts throughout Italy. Says one Ricordi executive: "We see to it that no dog ever sings Boheme...
When 16-year-old Sylvia Ruuska arrived in Australia early last month, toting her textbooks to keep up on high school homework, the reception was overwhelming. "Back home I guess that hardly anyone's ever heard of me," she said. "But out here everyone seems to know all about my times and everything. It's fantastic." Sylvia cuddled koalas, toured amusement parks, visited Dancer Fred Astaire on a movie set, but never lost sight of why she had come: to show swim-conscious Australians what an American girl could do. By the time she returned to California this...
...Olympia Stadium, a basketball-wise visitor, the Minneapolis Lakers' Coach John Kundla, shook his head in admiration. "I've been in this league twelve years," he said, "and I coached George Mikan, but I think Pettit is the best all-round player I've ever seen...