Word: impresario
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Broadway impresario, who has spent a half-century creating musicals such as Evita, Cabaret, Company and Phantom of the Opera, was appalled to learn that the June ceremony's network telecast did not include any mention of authors, designers, directors or choreographers...
Marcovicci points out that Coward's "language was so extraordinarily elaborate" that it seems all wrong coming from the lips of most pop singers. Impresario Donald Smith, who produced last week's gala, suggests another reason: "Coward himself was the greatest performer of his own works...
Record producer extraordinaire John Hammond, whose discoveries ranged from Count Basie to Bob Dylan, turned impresario in 1938 and 1939 for a pair of Carnegie Hall concerts featuring an eye-popping array of now legendary jazz, blues and gospel artists, including Basie, Sidney Bechet, Charlie Christian, Benny Goodman, Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Big Joe Turner. Both concerts are available for the first time on CD, in digitally remastered sound, with 23 previously unreleased tracks thrown in to sweeten the pot. This three-disc boxed set is a platinum mine of great American music...
...drama of Garth Drabinsky, the Broadway impresario--with a capital I--responsible for such shows as Ragtime, Kiss of the Spider Woman and Show Boat, has taken a turn worthy of a Shakespearean tragedy. The first-act curtain fell last August, when Drabinsky was suspended from Livent, the Toronto-based company he had founded. There he had pioneered a new business model, creating a company that both owned theaters and developed the shows that filled them in New York City and across North America...
Avant-garde writer and culture impresario Gertrude Stein was a stolid, heavy presence, monolithic, unladylike. She liked to gossip and had a great laugh. She boxed with welterweights for exercise. Art expert Bernard Berenson described her as looking "like a statue from Ur of the Chaldees." Alice B. Toklas was a chain smoker with a slight mustache, given to exotic dress, Gypsy earrings and manicured nails. They met in Paris in 1907. Alice, 29, found Gertrude, 33, "a golden brown presence." Gertrude insisted that Alice had heard bells heralding Stein's "greatness." Alice said Gertrude was simply struck by love...