Word: metropolitan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...talking about a new wave of drug abuse at Harvard, but there is enough bad stuff being sold around metropolitan Cambridge that students should be very cautious about who they buy drugs from," Davis said...
...talk shows (she has her own now). Instead, she will take up a difficult and possibly perilous new role in 1980-co-director of the New York City Opera, the company where she made her reputation and proved that a native-born singer could conquer American opera without the Metropolitan. Sharing the directorship will be the organization's current leader and Sills' mentor, Julius Rudel...
...high notes do not come as effortlessly as they once did, but the voice is still basically secure, and Sills should have no trouble finishing her last seasons in high style. Her first big test comes this very week with Massenet's Thaïs at the Metropolitan Opera. It is a high lyric role ("Manon with no clothes on," says Sills), and its range is brutal: from below middle C to high D. The show is a loan of the same production Sills scored a success in last season at the San Francisco Opera. Next December she will...
...Chapin became road manager for Violinist Jascha Heifetz. He held Vladimir Horowitz's hand when the volatile pianist returned to the recording studios in 1962, and to the concert stage in 1965. For three turbulent years he occupied the most prestigious chair in opera, general manager of the Metropolitan...
Marshall concedes that television also hurt by nightly providing child-oriented family Pablum for free. So did fears about the prowling dangers of the big city. The Music Hall has recently done two-thirds of its business before 6 p.m. because, as Marshall sees it, families in the metropolitan area were wary of riding the subway at night. Meanwhile, countermeasures such as budget trimming (the Music Hall dropped its ballet troupe three years ago) and trying to draw new audiences with mid night rock concerts failed to turn things around...