Word: graz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Graz, Austria...
Young Upstart. As a child in Graz, Austria, Böhm tagged after the town band to play make-believe maestro. At the insistence of his father, he entered law school, but often cut classes to serve as substitute conductor and pianist at the Graz Opera. At 25, he took a few hours off from rehearsals to pick up his law degree, then rushed back to conduct a performance of The Flying Dutchman...
...composers, some of Verdi's early operas are being given a fresh hearing-with unpredictable results. Gianna d'Arco (1845), performed this month by Manhattan's American Opera Society, was a thundering flop. But Attila (1846), as staged last week by the enterprising opera company of Graz, Austria, proved to be a rough diamond...
Fifth & Best. Stolz's headlong career in three-quarter time has yielded, in addition to his operettas, the music for 99 films, eleven ice shows, and more than 2,000 songs. It all began in Graz, where Stolz picked up the rudiments of conducting at the local conservatory. Appointed assistant conductor of the Stadttheater at Brno when he was 23, he promptly grew a beard to 1) make himself look older, 2) confuse his creditors, and 3) camouflage himself from the first of his five wives-to say nothing of the several other girls he was leaving behind. Stolz...