Word: julius
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the best way to get the show on the road was not to wage a "brick-and-mortar fund drive" but "to do something great with people." For its first effort, the foundation daringly chose to present the U.S. premiere of Handel's 241-year-old opera, Julius Caesar, a convoluted tale of love and intrigue in old Egypt, embellished with a floridly beautiful score...
...such an offbeat opener? "Because," explains Cindy, "we wanted to wake up cultural interests here, not just put them to sleep with the same old safe arias." In transporting Julius Caesar into the 20th century, Conductor Nicola Rescigno, who was imported from the Dallas Civic Opera with Producer Lawrence Kelly, compressed the unwieldy 51-hour libretto into three hours and, to allow for the inclusion of ballet sequences, added several numbers judiciously borrowed from other Handel operas...
...through agents. It enlists a network of ostensibly independent papers, stoops to clumsy but temporarily harassing forgeries usually purported to be U.S. documents showing American diplomats engaged in subversion of neutralist governments. It can spark ventures like the protest movement against the execution in 1953 of the convicted spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were able to claim in one of their last petitions that "never have more people, in all lands and all walks of life, been so shaken as by our imminent fate...
...Barter. At Abingdon, the tourists attended the Barter Theater's performance of Julius Caesar, and the First Lady presented the theater's annual award to Presidential Arts Adviser Roger Stevens for his contributions as a Broadway producer. In keeping with the little theater's name, the group bargained its way past the box office: Lady Bird unwrapped another White House seedling, and Mrs. Humphrey brought a bucket of vegetables-"not to be thrown...
Died. Leopold Figl, 62, Chancellor of Austria from 1945 to 1953, who spent six years in Nazi concentration camps, later founded the conservative People's Party and led a coalition regime until Julius Raab succeeded him, whereupon he became Foreign Minister, and in 1955 with Raab negotiated the end of Allied occupation; of cancer; in Vienna (see THE WORLD...