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...Medea in Milan. Harvard-bred (A.B., '39) Leonard Bernstein first flashed into musical prominence as a composer (Fancy Free, Trouble in Tahiti, On the Town), and is regarded as one of the most talented of U.S. conductors. Two years ago, with five days' preparation, he directed Milan's La Scala orchestra in the seldom-staged Medea of Cherubini, starring Maria Callas. To composing and conducting, he added teaching at Tanglewood and Brandeis University, spends his spare moments with his wife, Actress Felicia Montealegre, and three-year-old daughter. He worries that he may be scattering his talent...
...Stravinsky's 1927 opera-oratorio, Oedipus Rex, preceded by Ernst Krenek's three Medea monologues, sung by the Met's Mezzo-Soprano Blanche Thebom...
...hand-picked Skin as his own pet project for inclusion in a "Salute to France." This cultural export (financed by thousands of U.S. donors) plunked down before Parisians the Philadelphia Orchestra. New York City Ballet, two U.S.-sponsored art shows, plus first-class stage productions of Oklahoma! and Medea (TIME, June...
...first continental tour, will play in more than a dozen other cities from Lisbon to Helsinki. But its Paris visit was special: it was part of a "Salute to France" that is also offering Parisians the New York City Ballet plus topnotch stage productions of Oklahoma!, Medea and The Skin of Our Teeth.* The U.S. has discovered that American culture is a highly exportable commodity. (In 1953 and 1954 the U.S.S.R. spent $3,000,000 on cultural propaganda in Europe, sent 2,000 Soviet artists into France alone...
Modern American art stormed through Paris last week, the advance patrol of a U.S. culture parade that before summer is out will treat Frenchmen to everything from Oklahoma! and Medea to the New York City Ballet, the Philadelphia Symphony, and a collection of some 60 French masterpieces on loan from U.S. collections. As lead-off event, Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, setting up an advance base in Paris, staged a big show of modern art, including not only paintings and sculptures, but architectural exhibits, photographs, movies, prints, posters, and barrels of modern gadgets...