Word: impresario
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hollywood, Willwerth found Lou Adler, whose Ode Records is one of the most successful small recording companies. Midway through the interview, Adler excused himself, then dashed downstairs to join a basketball game between two bands, Chicago v. Cheech and Chong. Traveling on to San Francisco, Willwerth talked to Rock Impresario Bill Graham about his difficulties in starting a new record company, then accompanied a local record promoter on a tour of Bay Area radio stations. In Nashville the following week, the correspondent sat in on a recording session by Folk Artist Eric Andersen...
Brigitte Bardot as Don Juan? Why not? La Bardot, 38, in one of the most eye-raising pieces of casting since Sarah Bernhardt took on Hamlet, plays Don Juan as a dancer-turned-impresario whose chief occupation is ruining men of all ages. For the soon-to-be-released film, Director Roger Vadim did quite a job on his former wife: he got her to switch the color of her hair from blonde to brunette and "she even succeeded in changing her childish voice." Fortunately, he left the rest intact...
...dance marathon staged by New York's City Center? Was that doughty cultural impresario succumbing to the nostalgia craze reviving the 1920s stunts in which competing couples danced away the night-and the day, and sometimes the night again? Not quite. The City Center American Dance Marathon '72, which ended last week at Manhattan's ANTA Theater, was devoted more to the delights of diversity than to endurance. Over a period of six weeks, 20 of the most ruggedly individual dance companies in the U.S. matched style and idea in stalwart succession...
Opposed to him is Impresario Serge Diaghilev, who fires Nijinsky (Jorge Donn) for daring to marry Woman (Suzanne Farrell). Diaghilev symbolizes a false God who is at once greedy, arrogant and possessive. If Béjart's whole dramatic concept is embarrassingly commonplace, it obviously appealed to him as a chance to fashion the kind of mass ritual he likes best...
Still, someone was bound to try electrifying the orchestra, and though much work remains to be done, the implications are worth examining. Ordinary orchestras cost more and more to run, and funds are growing scarcer and scarcer. A small electrified orchestra might solve many a local impresario's money problems. If the engineering were expert enough, and enough loudspeakers placed in the right places, an electrified orchestra could solve any problem of hall acoustics...