Word: impresarios
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...spring evening in 1913 the intelligentsia of pre-war Paris gathered at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées to see & hear a sensational new ballet. The ballet, put on by famed Russian Impresario Serge Diaghilev, was something to see: Diaghilev's idea of how primitive man got ritually excited, come springtime. The accompanying music, a boisterous, tom-tomming, banshee-wailing symphonic hullabaloo by Music's No. 1 Bad Boy, Igor Stravinsky, had even more oomph than the ballet...
...week's end it looked as though General Manager Johnson had quelled the mutiny. It was announced that Diva Flagstad would be back to sing Walkure on Feb 8. Massive Tenor Melchior had apologized. Said Impresario Johnson: "The Metropolitan Opera is bigger than any individual. . . . Let's not bother with a tempest in a teapot...
Basso Kipnis decided to become a U. S. citizen and marry a U. S. woman, settled in Chicago. During the Chicago Opera's peak years under Impresario Mary Garden, Kipnis was one of its brightest stars. When the Chicago Opera folded in 1932, opera fans thought New York's Metropolitan would salvage Basso Kipnis from the wreck. Nearly every European opera house (including Bayreuth and the Salzburg Festival) rushed to sign up Kipnis, but the Met did not join the rush...
...American Razor Co. President Joseph Kaufman, who threatened to cede her "Castle" in Newport, R. I. to Negro Cultist Father Divine last July if she was not granted a liquor license (she can now get one), offered the stone mansion as a potential night spot to Manhattan Night Club Impresario Sherman Billingsley. Said cautious Impresario Billingsley, who has two going concerns in Manhattan (Stork Club, Nine O'Clock Club) and who knows the potentialities of a nightclub in stuffy Newport: "I'm considering...
...fancy-named Russian choreographers, did no classical Russian ballets. Its 20-year-old dancers concentrated on U. S. subjects, did their own staging, hired U. S. composers to write their music, added a distinct U. S. flavor to their classical leaps and entrechats. They were so successful that Impresario Kirstein soon began to lake expenses...