Word: fame
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...BACH Society orchestra can claim fame as the orchestra that brought you the "Concerto Scene" in Love Story. This weekend, though, there's a real concert, featuring two works for soprano performed by Pene lope Jense. Mrs. Jensen, a graduate of the Ed School, has not sung in this kar with the unmistakable Frenchness area since the Monteverdi Vespers of 1966. since the Monteverdi Vespers of 1966. since then, she has soloed with the Cleveland Orchestra under Sixteen Ehrling and the Atlanta Symphony under Robert Shaw; Saturday she performs the Bach "Wedding Cantata" and the rarely performed Quatre Poems Hindous...
Occupying only 62 square miles in the mountains between Austria and Switzerland, Liechtenstein has few but varied claims to fame. It is ruled by a prince from one of Europe's oldest royal families and is the world's second largest producer of false teeth (after the U.S.). It has no currency of its own, nor does it have soldiers, unemployment, slums or airports. Last week's vote left Liechtenstein another distinction: it is the only European country without female suffrage, leaving it in the same category as Jordan, Kuwait, Northern Nigeria, Yemen and Saudi Arabia (where...
...Mother Earth and the Sir Douglas Quintet, worked with Dr. John the Night Tripper, did the arrangements for Jimmy Cotton's best album ( Cut You Loose ), made two mediocre solo albums, and wrote a song entitled "Schizophrenic Susan Minnick," all of which should entitle him to some small fame, surely. This, his latest album, was a blatant attempt to get Talbert a hit single, which attempt, unfortunately, failed...
Died. Fernandel, 67, elastic-featured French comedian who mugged his way to international cinema fame in The Little World of Don Camilla (1951); of cancer; in Paris. His real name was Fernand Contandin, but he preferred "just one name. Like Napoleon." He won an amateur singing contest in 1928, eleven years later was voted the most popular screen personality in France. His lantern jaw and Grand Canyon grin once prompted Actor Sacha Guitry to inquire with impeccable Gallic politeness: "Has anyone ever told you, monsieur-how odd-that you look like a horse...
...media, from paint and sculpture to architecture, sound and print, hovers behind all recent experiments in mixed media. Like Max Ernst, Schwitters is the "classical" Dadaist who destroyed nothing and became instead a kind of stylistic oracle. There have been a number of Schwitters retrospectives to cement the fame Schwitters himself never lived to enjoy. The latest, perhaps the definitive one, is now on view at the Kunsthalle in Düsseldorf, Germany, containing nearly 300 works...