Word: moritz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Antheil: the Wish (Kentucky Opera Association, Louisville Orchestra conducted by Moritz Bomhard-Louisville Orchestra Commissioning Series). A one-act opera, written and composed by a master orchestrator with a surrealist imagination. The plot is wispish and dreamlike, designed to prove that love is eternal. The music is tuneful, often witty and sometimes engrossing, although it shows signs of its creator's glib...
Niarchos' routine, as a London associate observed, "is that he has no routine." However, summer usually finds him aboard the Creole, winter on the ski slopes of St. Moritz (where the toughest descent is labeled NIARCHOS RUN). In June, the menage gravitates to London for the social season. Twice in the past four years they have come to the U.S. so that his attractive young wife, Eugenie Niarchos, 26, could bear two native American sons...
...concertgoers were showered with more American orchestral music last week than they had ever heard at once before, and found it a treatment, if not altogether a treat. The concert took place in the Music High School, with the West Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Louisville's Moritz Bombard. It was organized by the American Composers Alliance. The capacity audience, including a large contingent of East Berliners, went expecting a program of chaotic and jittery sound, heard instead some very agreeable and orderly music...
Died. Francis Tyler, 51, burly helmsman of the No. 2 U.S. bobsled team that took first place in the 1948 Olympics at St. Moritz; of a heart attack; in Lake Placid...
...wrong weather is almost a tradition for Winter Olympics. At St. Moritz, in 1928, blinding snowstorms followed by unseasonable warmth almost wrecked the games; Lake Placid in 1932 all but melted in midwinter thaw; at Oslo, 20 years later, warm weather nearly wiped out competition...