Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Grand Rapids, Mich...
...that yowling about Laika gave me a pain. Do these dog lovers know that every day in our own grand and glorious country thousands of poor, worn-out old horses are driven up ramps to the slaughter-to provide food for their lousy pets...
...therefore, less surprising that the Leverett House presentation of Miss Julie fails in places than that the production succeeds as well as it does. While the show arouses no grand passions, it still stirs up some feelings--and that, given the play, is no mean accomplishment. The problem appears murkily, but it does appear...
Able Chicago Impresario Lawrence V. Kelly, who undertook the staggering job of installing an opera company deep in the heart of Texas, had managed to snag Maria Callas to kick off his new Dallas Civic Opera Company with a grand inaugural concert. But earlier in the season the diva dived off the deep end and failed to appear with the San Francisco Opera Company, pleading ill-health (TIME, Sept. 30). Rumors said that her voice had cracked. Some people in Dallas thought she could not sing, others that she would not. Texans by the droves failed to buy tickets...
Leogene Graffteiner is really four pianists: Gary Graffman, Leon Fleisher, Eugene Istomin and Jacob Lateiner. The first three are close friends, and all share an extravagant admiration for an ancient Steinway concert grand known as "Old 199." Because they pass it from one to another while touring in the U.S., they refer to its current player by a composite name. Graffman & Co. today are in the forefront of a group of young U.S. pianists who have recently made the perilous leap from prodigy to professional artist...