Word: gramm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only bright spot for Bentsen was his easy victory over a vigorous challenger in the concurrent race for the Senate nomination, getting 63 per cent of the vote. The challenge came from Phil Gramm, a conservative economics professor at Texas A&M, whose attacks focused on Bentsen's supposed neglect of the Lone Star state in his presidential bid. One TV ad featured two disembodied voices, one of which asked what Bentsen had to show for his six years in the Senate. The other mentioned Bentsen's vote to expand the Voting Rights Act, his support for federal...
Caldwell can shriek at the chorus, growl at the stagehands, spit fire at a careless secondary singer, but usually will serve sweet honey to her soloists. She solicits their advice and often takes it. During rehearsals for Barber, Bass-Baritone Donald Gramm said that it might be fun if the glass in his hand broke as Sills hit a high C in the lesson scene. Caldwell loved the idea and put it in. "As both conductor "and director, I am very much aware that it is those people up there doing it onstage," she says. "I can help them...
...could be scoring musicological points by dredging up, say, Cornelius' The Barber of Baghdad! She is doing what any savvy impresario would do-playing to her strength. When a loyal Caldwellite like Beverly Sills is willing to sing her first Rosina, and that master of operatic disguise Donald Gramm is equally eager to sing Bartolo, the savvy thing to do is put on The Barber of Seville...