Word: mantovani
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wrestling programs, proudly announced plans to bring an impressive roster of Metropolitan Opera stars to Philadelphia next season for opera performances. In his long career, 59-year-old Promoter Fabiani has also treated Philadelphians to professional tennis tournaments, midget auto racing, ice revues, plus such middlebrow musical fare as Mantovani's lush strings. With profits from these enterprises, he has given Philadelphia a new opera company, the Lyric, lured big-name singers with fat fees ($6.500 per recital for Tebaldi...
After what a Committee member called a "haphazard" trial in the Fall Term, a poll indicated 3-1 approval of the innovation. Thus encouraged, the Committee borrowed better equipment for last Friday and played "everything from Mozart to Mantovani." Since the response was violently inconclusive, Peter A. Lindenbaum '60, chairman of the House Committee, admitted that another canvass would probably be in order...
...there is no doubt that the taste of the companies-and of the customers-is gradually improving. Says Columbia Artists President Frederick C. Schang Jr.: "They start listening to Mantovani. In time they want Kostelanetz, which is a step up. or maybe the Boston Pops. Then maybe they will venture on to a big-time symphony orchestra playing Tchaikovsky. After that, one of these days, they'll even go for Beethoven-and they are caught. That's the way it's done in this country...
STRAUSS WALTZES: Mantovani and Orchestra...
RHAPSODY IN BLUE (Gershwin): Julius Katchen, pianist, and the Mantovani Orchestra...