Word: impresarios
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...Social Register version of A Star Is Born-a tale of two women allied in a successful assault on wealth, fame and political power. The star is Elesina Dart, a beauty of good background who has gone through two marriages and flubbed one promising theatrical career. The impresario is Ivy Trask, a cynical, shrewd middle-aged fashion editor and social arbiter at Broadlawns, the Westchester estate of Judge Irving Stein, banker and art collector...
Died. Wernher von Braun, 65, German-born impresario of the U.S. space program; of cancer; in Alexandria, Va. (see SCIENCE...
Last week a survey of Vollard's 45 years of work as impresario went on view at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. It is the kind of show that only a museum with the resources of MOMA could bring together-more than 450 prints, books and bronzes, accompanied by a catalogue raisonné by Art Historian Una Johnson, and all assembled by MOMA's director of prints and illustrated books, Riva Castleman...
...fell in love at first sight. It's the sort of city I'm glad to be married to." The indefatigable Composer-Director-Impresario Gian Carlo Menotti was at it again, in what could be the greatest -and riskiest-romance of his long career in music and the performing arts: launching an American version of Italy's Spoleto Festival in Charleston, S.C. Menotti created the original festival in June 1958, transforming the quiet old Umbrian hill town of Spoleto into an international center of the arts...
Folk Singer Joan Baez and Carlos Santana and his Latin rock band had a captive audience last week. The occasion: a concert they gave at California's Soledad prison set up by Rock Impresario Bill Graham. The 600 prisoners who curled up on the grass of a playing field were not shortchanged. Baez, 36, sang songs like Raze the Prisons Down and passed out carnations. She then danced with a few prisoners and invited "two brothers" to come play with the band. After the final note, Baez said farewell by yelling loud and clear: "I hope...