Word: nes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Trujillo's government announced that Trujillo himself went to the Constanza area to oversee the counterattack, that Rebel Commander (and onetime Castro Captain) Enrique Jiménes Moya was killed. The rebels fought back with reports that Trujillo was nervously hiding out at San Isidro Air Base, that Jiménes Moya was still alive and fighting, that Pilot Ventura Simó had been executed by a San Isidro firing squad when his propaganda value had been used...
...haunting warning Einsam wachend in der Nacht in Act II had a texture soft as velvet, but with resonant carrying power. Her characterization in one of opera's most thankless roles was skillfully subdued, came as a welcome relief from the histrionics with which other Brangänes sometimes worry the Met's stage. All in all, it was a welcome and memorable first visit by the girl from across...
This time there were four ballets new to the U.S. by the company's leading Choreographer Frederick Ashton, one by rising young John Cranko. Ashton's Scènes de Ballet was danced before a De Chirico-like architectural backdrop, proved as angularly abstract as the Stravinsky score in an intricate counterpoint of shifting groups. High point was the saucy, mincing solo of young ballerina Nadia Nerina, dancing like a flirtatious marionette to the lilting wail of an oboe...
Massenet: Scènes Pittoresques (Lamoureux Orchestra conducted by Jean Fournet; Epic). An ingratiating suite by one of the French nationalist revolution aries of the 1870s (others: Lalo, Saint-Saëns) that swings its waltz and polonaise movements as only Massenet could. Played as if it were made of sturdier stuff...
...adopted such Roman Catholic practices as saying the rosary and burning votive candles, were drifting toward such "Romanist" dogma as the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary. Last month the trustees fired Father Bosshard only to have the students, 47 to 1, demand his reinstatement. Dean William H. Nes, unable to change the students' viewpoint, resigned himself. The trustees are now looking for a successor. Said Milwaukee's Bishop Benjamin F. P. Ivins, himself a high churchman: "We stand in between Protestantism and Romanism. There was a group of students that was adhering absolutely to Romanism...