Word: heralds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Berlioz's dramatic symphony Romeo et Juliette, and Stokowski chose her to sing the mezzo-soprano solo in the U.S. premiere of Prokofiev's cantata, Alexander Nevsky. Says Jennie: "All of a sudden everything came to me." After her Town Hall debut in 1943, the New York Herald Tribune's Virgil Thomson wrote: "Miss Tourel's conquest . . . was . . . without any local parallel since Kirsten Flagstad's debut at the Metropolitan Opera House some nine seasons...
...nation's half-dozen best newspapers last week became in name, as it has long been in fact, a woman's responsibility. Mrs. Ogden Reid, inheriting her late husband's estate (TIME, Jan. 13), became president of the New York Herald Tribune and possessor of 170 of the paper's 200 shares. In as editor went her 33-year-old son Whitelaw ("Whitie") Reid, Yaleman, Navyman and fifth in a line of editors that started with Horace Greeley...
...stop the show every time Tagliavini sang a note, and those who wanted to get on with the proceedings. Critics generally found Tagliavini a very good, if not yet great, tenor who used his lyric voice with natural grace and showed a warm feeling for character. Even the Herald Tribune's Virgil Thomson, usually the Met's sharpest critic, was impressed. He wrote: "He sings high and loud [and] does not gulp or gasp or gargle salt tears. . . . Not in a very long time have we heard tenor singing at once so easy and so adequate. . . . He even...
...discussion of "The Art of Judging Music" by Thomson, music critic of the New York Herald-Tribune, will highlight the second session, with talks by Edgar Wind, Smith College art historian, and Madame Olga Samaroff, of the Juilliard School of Music also scheduled...
Died. Ogden Mills Reid, 64, editor-publisher of the Republican New York Herald Tribune, son of Tribune editor Whitelaw Reid, onetime U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. A year after his father's death in 1912, he became editor of the Tribune, eleven years later purchased the New York Herald (founded 1835) and its Paris edition. With his wife as partner, he directed a paper that gave Manhattan its best local news, that offered foreign coverage surpassed only by the rival New York Times...