Word: metropolitane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ford Hour (Sun. 8 p.m., ABC). Metropolitan Opera Artists Jan Peerce, Leonard Warren, Rose Bampton and Gladys Swarthout guest-star in a full hour of operatic music...
...until the gunpowder ran out the heels of his boots-his favorite hobby. "I have learned not to run up a high temperature and blood pressure," said Speaker Moses, "over the intolerant off-scourings of minds inflamed by revolutionaries . . . the wisecracks of sophisticates who are the eunuchs of our metropolitan seraglio, the lofty disdain of ivory-tower planners, the bitter, irresponsible mouthings of the radical press, the cheese spread of radio commentators and the slipcover advertising of former mayors." The Institute awarded the Commissioner a gold medal: for "distinguished services to humanity...
Only two U.S. operas have been produced at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House in the past eight years; both were written by the same man. Yet 34-year-old, Italian-born Gian-Carlo Menotti, the composer, is no admirer...
This week Levine got a $1,000 welcome home from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, one of 23 awards to artists, writers and musicians as a "practical recognition" of their past achievements. Among Levine's past achievements: String Quartet, in Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, a painting in the Pentagon...
Bizet: Carmen (Rise Stevens, Nadine Conner, Raoul Jobin and Robert Weede, with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, George Sebastian conducting; Columbia, 10 sides). A pedestrian presentation, in which the best efforts are Stevens' Habanera and Baritone Robert Weede's bully Toreador Song. Performance: fair...