Word: mosquitoless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...assistant director of Columbia University's Opera Workshop and settled in New Mexico. Arguing that there was no reason why "Americans should have to travel to Europe in the summer to get good music," he talked friends into putting up $150,000, and selected the "rainless, mosquitoless and airplaneless" 76-acre San Juan ranch in the piñon-studded hills north of the city as the location for an amphitheater. Crosby and associates constructed a stage shell with an up-sloping flying roof and forward-sweeping wings designed to kill the echo off the rocky hills. To reflect...
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