Word: impresarios
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pleasant voice, was the soloist in a secular cantata, Non sa che sia Dolore, attributed (maliciously) to J. S. Bach; the Orchestra's strings played Purcell's Fantasia on One Note with as much life as a bagpipe; and everybody fretted over the overture to Mozart's Impresario like gummed velvet...
Though the company is new to the U.S., American audiences have long been familiar with its graduates. In pre-Bolshevik days, the Kirov was St. Petersburg's Maryinsky company, fountainhead of Western ballet. In graceful profusion, it produced the dancers Nijinsky and Pavlova, the choreographer Fokine, the impresario Diaghilev. Its demanding, perfectionist teachers seeded the world's great troupes with their students: Galina Ulanova went on from St. Petersburg to her triumphs with Moscow's Bolshoi, and Choreographer George Balanchine used his Maryinsky training to reshape the entire U.S. ballet scene...
With customary sensitivity to the major trends in U.S. society, TV Impresario David Susskind came up with a colossal program idea: Why not do one of his Open End discussion shows on Hollywood's much-publicized Clan and invite Frank ("The Leader") Sinatra to participate? Back from Frankie came a telegram stating his price: $250,000 an hour. Piqued, David fired off an answering wire: "Presume stipulated fee is for your traditional program of intramural ring-a-ding-dinging with additional fillip of musical lyrics mounted on TelePrompTer. Please advise price for spontaneous discussion." But Sinatra emerged the victor...
...staging well-designed new productions, building an impressive roster of singers, and boldly doubling ticket prices for choice locations, Bing has boosted Met income higher than it has been since the days of Italian-born Impresario Gatti-Casazza's reign in the 1920s. But costs have soared even higher: last season the Met spent $6,950,000. Opera, said Bing last week, is "an art form never designed for the economics of the 20th century." The era has passed, he might have added, when men such as the late Banker Otto Kahn, the Met's perennial chairman...
...days, no New England town was complete without its village idiot, but now there are the summer theater managers. How many times, after all, can a man watch Springtime for Henry in his own barn? But last week one impresario decided that he was not the only unbalanced character in town. After 29 years at Maine's Kennebunkport Playhouse, Robert C. Currier took an ad in the local paper, put his famous theater up for sale, and explained why. "I have felt for some time," he said, "that a person must have an examination proving he's half...