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...year-old Viennese farce of double identities and doubles entendres a shining new face,* he called on Playwright-Director Garson (Born Yesterday) Kanin. Lyricist (Inside U.S.A.) and M-G-M Vice President Howard Dietz supplied Kanin's "free adaptation" with a new English-speaking voice. Designer Rolf Gerard was recruited to repeat his earlier scenic success with Don Carlo; pint-sized Conductor Eugene Ormandy was borrowed from the Philadelphia Orchestra. The only thing not touched: Strauss's score, which, says Kanin, was "protected like a delicate child...
Along with these news subjects, we have had cover stories which discussed the way in which artists through the ages have depicted the real news of Christmas, the birth of Christ. There was Gerard David's painting of The Nativity in 1945 and, two years later, the Madonna and Child by Renaissance Painter Alesso Baldovinetti...
Several individual performances in the Magnificat deserve especial mention. Daniel Pinkham's playing of the harpsichord continue was very line, while, despite a few precarious moments, Gerard Gouguen negotiated the high trumpet part quite successfully. The most satisfying section for me was the aria for alto, "Esurientes implevit bonis." Miss Albert's singing and the flute playing of Howard Brown and Norton Gettes were outstanding...
Loss of graduated left tackle Gerard Walters also hampered Zitrides, although Gil Borjeson, star hammer-thrower for the track team, has improved greatly over the course of the season. At left guard Brown has John Pietre, a slow moving veteran. Center has proved another trouble spot, where Zitrides has been going along with Ed Sexton, an inexperienced junior...
...interfere at all." She never got it. She quickly learned that opera is a compromise between the eye & the ear-and that "the Met's great god is time." Even when Conductor Stiedry was not rushing up from the pit to correct an eighth note, or Designer Gerard was not moving a table or chair, she felt "them" creeping in on her: "The orchestra manager looking at his wrist watch and peering earnestly at me; the chorus master shifting on his feet, surreptitiously looking at his watch; the head stagehand; the chief electrician . . ." She learned to compute the cost...