Word: guested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First the board announced a "season of discovery," during which nine guest conductors paraded their talents. Late this season (the "season of decision"), the board sent out ballots to thousands of symphony supporters. Last week, with the returns tabbed, San Francisco took the leap, handed Spanish-born Enrique Jordá, 42, a two-year contract. Conductor Jordá (pronounced Hor-dah) had led the balloting...
...Franciscans were charmed by Jordá from his first guest appearance last season. They liked the vitality of his gestures, the warmth of tone he drew from the orchestra. Their hearts went out to him when his stiff collar popped open in a fiery Spanish number. Finally, his fondness for the lyrical touch and his romantic musical taste-he has revived rarely played Schumann and Dvorak symphonies-made him seem a logical successor to Monteux, who for 17 years had molded San Franciscan taste...
...been off the musical main stem. He was born in the Basque city of San Sebastian, and after studies in Paris became the youthful conductor of the Madrid Symphony (1940-45). In 1947 he moved to South Africa to be conductor of the Cape Town Orchestra. Except for a guest stint in Buenos Aires in 1944, San Francisco was his first stop in the Western Hemisphere...
...from a local ghost renter) to assure success at the opening. As any obeah-minded Bahamian could have predicted, this precaution worked; the ghost, one Richard Crotch in life, worked silently and invisibly to bring the necessary luck. Such corporeal visitors as Prince and Princess Alexis Obolensky, Mrs. Winston Guest, Sir Victor Sassoon, Mrs. Bernard Gimbel and Metropolitan Opera Tenor Jussi Bjoerling materialized from amphibians that made 40 nights in and out. Other guests, before and since: Danny Kaye, the Countess of Leicester, Brenda Frazier Kelly. All applauded what the ghost and Wenner-Gren had wrought. Much bucked...
...exactly the same plot. This one is set not in Glacier Park but in "the seething city of Macao" on China's southeast coast; and instead of Technicolor it provides a scarlet situation. The witness (Joanne Dru) is not only on the lam; she is also the "house guest" of an eminent gambler of those parts (Lyle Bettger) who for pure viciousness makes Vincent Price look like a corn-silk addict. The private eye in the caper is Tony Curtis, who not only uses his body more expertly than Victor Mature but sometimes even moves his face. The only...