Word: listened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sounds Corny. Neither of Peter's Italian-born parents was a musician, but for their home in Erie, Pa. they bought a phonograph and taught sons Peter and Lewis (Lewis is now 28 and a composer-teacher at the University of Texas) to listen to records. Says Peter: "Sounds corny, but I always liked Beethoven." He was set to studying sight-reading at seven, could read music before he could play an instrument, still plays "terrible piano." At 17, he went to Ohio's Oberlin Conservatory, then after a spell in the Air Force, took his degrees (including...
This time, the organizers set out to learn just what Brooklyn wanted. They rang doorbells, stopped citizens on the streets, questioned 8,000 people. Findings: most people who were likely to come and listen wanted two concerts a month and thought a $2 top for tickets about right; only 18% wanted an all-symphonic program. 58% wanted them "usually" symphonic; 75% preferred pianists as soloists; more wanted to hear contraltos than sopranos. But above all, Brooklyn wanted to have opera-at least in concert performance...
Hollywood may shout about a movie and New York critics rave about it-but Main Street can still give it a cold shoulder. Theater owners generally listen to Main Street, where most of their paying customers live. Before booking a movie, many a cautious exhibitor scans the pages of Boxoffice and Motion Picture Herald for the thumbnail reviews by exhibitors who have already shown the picture...
Grappling with such matters, Wright has had to push aside some of his own work (including a book on the Federalist Papers, which he never got around to finishing), but he still takes time to read novels ("anything but detective stories"), listen to Mozart records and play with his two children and two cats. At Smith, one of his jobs will be to raise the $2,000,000 left to go in the college's $7,000,000 drive. Beyond that, he claims to have no revolutionary plans for Smith ("This whole thing has happened rather suddenly"). But Smith...
...G.P.s invited 20 specialists to talk to them, crowded in to listen with an enthusiasm that amazed veteran conventiongoers. At every session for four days they filled the Netherland Plaza's meeting rooms ahead of time, stayed late, kept the speakers answering questions afterward...