Word: fritz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kelley as Mime, Blanche Thebom as Fricka and Waltraute, Jean Madeira as Erda. What really held audiences, however, was the Wagnerian power of the Met's orchestra, conducted once by Dimitri Mitropoulos (Walküre) and the rest of the time by the Met's Wagner veteran, Fritz Stiedry...
Closing a Gap. Ollenhauer ended his Bundestag speech by calling for an all-European collective system that would include a reunified Germany. Amid more cheers his military expert, Fritz Erler, spelled out the details of the proposed system: all European countries would join, contributing their own defense forces, subject to joint armaments control, mutual-assistance pacts and nonaggression treaties, with the U.S. and Soviet Russia guaranteeing the whole setup...
...crew will try to get out on the river during the last week in February, according to head manager Fritz Osterr '57. "Although we might not make it until March, the river is pretty soft now, and we hope that it will break up in time," he said...
After Harvard, Lennie vainly tried to find a musical job, even hung out his shingle as a piano teacher ("No pupils," he recalls). But Fritz Reiner, then at Philadelphia's famed Curtis Institute of Music, was impressed by a dazzling Bernstein audition, took him on as a student in conducting. But it was in the late Serge Koussevitzky. the Boston Symphony Orchestra's matchless showman, that Bernstein found his musical father. Koussevitzky invited him to join the conducting class at Tanglewood's summer music school. The old man called him Lenyush ka, and told friends...
...toward more recognizable subject matter, and 2) a surprising strength in oldtime geometric abstractions. Loren Maclver's softly luminous The Street (see next spread), which carried off first honors, was called by one juror "very, very sensitive and charming, with more feeling than almost any other picture there." Fritz Glarner's Relational Painting Number 79, second-prize choice, demonstrated that a Mondrian disciple can stress the master's geometry out of plumb and still retain its purity. An even more austere geometric form, Josef Albers' Homage to the Square-"Yes" won third prize. Robert Gwathmey...