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...subsidy, he imported 26 musicians from Italy, France, Belgium. He raised salaries. He laid down a program of five two-hour rehearsals a week. Last week's concert, first of a series at popular prices (60?-$1.80), showed what could be done. Never had the works of Beethoven, Massenet and Moussorgsky sounded so sonorously in Caracas. At intermission, flanked by members of his revolutionary Junta, President Betancourt hustled backstage to congratulate the maestro. Cried Betancourt: "Magnifico...
...Massenet's Thaïs, 33-year-old Edis, trained in the bel canto tradition, revealed a good dramatic soprano voice, whose only major flaw was an occasional dry, pingless top note. She also knew how to act, and her trim figure, revealed for the seduction of the monk Athanaël in the first act, made Paris audiences forget all the baggy Thaïses they had ever seen. Many a Frenchman (including Composer Massenet's nephew, Pierre) was reminded, in Edis' best moments, of an earlier Thaïs, Mary Garden. The comparison was appropriate...
Sunday Evening Hour (Sun. 8 p.m., ABC). The Detroit Symphony, with Pianist Henrietta Schumann: Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 1; Ganne's Marche Lorraine', Massenet's Scènes Alsaciennes: Weber's Overture to Der Freischütz. Conductor: Valter Poole...
...Other winners: Berlioz, Gounod, Bizet, Massenet, Debussy...
Telephone Hour (Mon. 9 p.m., NBC). Songs by Massenet, Chausson, Noel Coward. Soloist: Maggie Teyte...