Word: impresarios
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Everybody was on hand-Count Basie and Louis Armstrong, Pee Wee Russell, Dave Brubeck, Woody Herman, Roy Eldridge, Gerry Mulligan, the Modern Jazz Quartet, and plenty of others as "far out" as mortal men can get. Tabulating receipts at week's end, Impresario George Wein grinned from ear to ear. Not only would the festival be continued next year, he predicted, but it might well spread to Europe...
...intellectuals are appalled at the "bourgeois barbarism" that relegates U.S. intellectuals to the status of "eggheads." After a shuddering visit to the U.S., Simone (The Second Sex) de Beauvoir, complained: "The U.S. is hard on intellectuals. Publishers, managers evaluate your brains with a critical and disgusted air, like an impresario asking a dancer to show her legs...
After dropping down to the Air Force University at Montgomery, Ala. to make a commencement speech, highhanded TV Impresario Arthur Godfrey made some less salutary remarks on a telecast. His target: Montgomery, the state's capital; it gets so hot there, said Godfrey, that folks would just curl up and die if they didn't have air conditioning. Its civic pride bruised, Montgomery's daily Advertiser promptly cracked back: "Before we comment on Arthur Godfrey's wicked attack . . . we want it clearly understood that we don't listen to the bum." Regretted the Advertiser...
Sure enough, it turned out that good Prince-Bishop Wenceslaus had been a patron of music. His favorites: one Vincenzo Righini (1756-1812) and one Josef Martin Kraus (1756-92), who once had a symphony conducted by Haydn. That was all Impresario Hammer needed to know. Now a baroque-music week is a permanent fixture in Bad Bertrich. This year's festival gets under way next month with music by Righini and Kraus, plus Mozart, Haydn and Schumann. It will be played in the castle's candlelit hall, dominated by portraits of the Prince-Bishop and his sister...
Leading the ticket was Morris B. Sachs, South Side garment merchant and local TV impresario (Sacks' Amateur Hour), who ran for city treasurer. In the Democratic primary, Morris Sachs went down to defeat with outgoing Mayor Martin Kennelly, wept in Kennelly's arms while cameras recorded his sorrow (TIME, March 7). Sad Sachs dried his tears when he was offered a place on the organization's ticket. In campaign speeches he recalled fondly: "I sold Dick Daley's mother the first pair of long pants for Dick. Without me, where would he be?" His reward...