Word: gaillard
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...place for Jimmy Carter's first full-length speech on Soviet-American relations. Here was the President on what looked for all the world like an old-fashioned barnstorming tour through his native South last week, and here were 500 Southern state legislators in the gardenia-adorned Gaillard Auditorium in Charleston, S.C., all ready for a few lighthearted moments of down-home pleasantries and political good tidings. That same evening the President was off to Yazoo City, Miss., for a "Citizens' Public Meeting" (see following story) and then, the next day, he was lifted by helicopter...
Charleston's hotels and inns were less than full on opening day, and the streets were hardly crammed with festival goers. Less than 2,000 paying customers showed up at the 2,700-seat Gaillard Municipal Auditorium for the first big evening event-the four-hour uncut production of Tchaikovsky's opera The Queen of Spades, first introduced last year at Spoleto, Italy. But if the variety and excellence of the first week's offerings were fair guides, Spoleto U.S.A. should become a success...
Matters went more smoothly that evening during The Queen of Spades (in English) at the Gaillard auditorium. Backstage facilities are cramped, and the pit holds only 65 musicians. Fortunately, they were 65 of the best young instrumentalists Keene could recruit from around the U.S. Said Keene proudly: "It's the finest orchestra Spoleto has ever had." Leading the players adroitly through the lushly colored Tchaikovsky score, Guide Ajmone-Marsan, the Italian-born conductor, made a brilliant U.S. operatic debut...