Word: metropolitanism
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Walter A. Rosenblith, provost of MIT, said yesterday that although the institute is not willing to act as a "metropolitan unit" for the Boston area, it does not object to allowing Harvard students to enroll in the program so long as the increased size does not disrupt its functioning...
...rear of the orchestra floor. He peered intently at the stage and listened. His blue shirt was open at the neck, and over it he wore a bright red cardigan. He could have been a stagehand out for a stroll. Instead, James Levine, the new music director of the Metropolitan Opera, was making his rounds. It was the season's last performance of The Barber of Seville. Levine had seen and heard it countless times before. That did not matter to the man charged with preserving and restoring the troubled company's musical excellence. He prefers to make...
...remember," he says. As a piano prodigy of ten, Levine played the Mendelssohn Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Cincinnati Symphony. When it came time for a reward from his delighted parents, the answer was quick: "I want to go to New York and to the Metropolitan Opera." Later, as a student at the Juilliard School he could usually be found at the opera three times a week. Speaking metaphorically, as he often does, Levine says: "I know what the Met can do when all its lights are on. I mean, I grew up in that house...
...singing when she discovered she had perfect pitch and extraordinary vocal cords. In 1929 at the Opera House in Mulhouse, Alsace, she debuted in Lakmé, a role in which she later daringly appeared, navel exposed, in costume sans midriff. One of her most famous performances was at the Metropolitan Opera in 1931: she sang the difficult "Mad Scene" in Lucia di Lammermoor in the key of F, an entire tone higher than the original score. Married to Conductor André Kostelanetz from 1938 until their divorce in 1958, Pons moved to Dallas in 1961 and remained active in local...
...Faculty also discussed the possible formation of a committee to investigate possible alternatives to cross-registration at MIT for students wishing to enroll in ROTC courses. One alternative may be the development of a metropolitan ROTC center including students from several colleges, Rosovsky said...