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Once a week Bliss meets with his chief assistants, a quartet his secretary calls the "four Js: Joan, Joe, John and Jimmy." With their surnames attached they are known as Joan Ingpen, the scheduling wizard; Joseph Volpe, overseer of backstage activities; John Dexter, the production adviser; and James Levine. That weekly meeting enables Bliss to get the view from all four sides of the big house. "Sometimes," he observes, "an artistic decision will create a technical problem or a box office or funding problem. When you choose a new production, you also have to ask the question: Is this...
...small first-floor office, an ever present towel tossed over his left shoulder, Levine scans the mail and then meets with General Manager Anthony Bliss to discuss a choreographer for next season's opening production of Berlioz's Les Troyens; already three have declined. Assistant Manager Joan Ingpen, who is in charge of artistic administration, pops in to have Levine approve a "cover" for a sick tenor and to vet Director Jean-Pierre Ponnelle's request to adjust his rehearsal schedule next season. "Once we counted 40,000 castings arranged over a five-year period," says Levine...
...question need not be faced for years. Says Joan Ingpen, artistic administration director of the Metropolitan: "I will bet that he will still be singing in his 50s and 60s." And, she might add, still kissing girls and eating pasta and giving tennis opponents the toilet paper. He may not shift out of high gear, but he obviously intends to go for distance. "A voice gives you a certain mileage, like a car," says San Francisco's Adler. "If you are a good driver, it can go for 100,000 miles." Clearly, Pavarotti is a good driver...
...Ingpen: Shelley in England...
...library of the Union has recently received a number of new books which make a valuable addition to that collection. Among those recently published are: "Shelley in England," Roger Ingpen; "Short Rations," Madeleine Z. Doty; "Pip," by Ian Hay; "America's Relations to the Great War," J. W. Burgess; the collected poems of James Elroy Flecker; "The Spirit of American Literature," J. A. Macy; "The Advance of the English Novel," W. L. Phelps; "Dante," C. H. Grandgent '83; "Lost Endeavor," by John Masefield; "A Popular Life of Martin Luther," Elsie Singmaster; "Health and Disease," R. I. Lee '02; "Abraham Lincoln...
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