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Next night the Met gave its sixth performance (in two years) of the only contemporary composition in its repertory, Igor Stravinsky's Rake's Progress, which has cost the Met more than 60,000 hard-won dollars to mount. Reported Critic Olin Downes of the Times: "The opera suffered the worst fiasco that we have seen occur at the Metropolitan in 30 years of attendance there." Only a slim crowd turned up in the first place, and "by the end of the second act, people were leaving in scores ... It is clear that the public has tired...
...when he first crashed on to the U.S. music scene in a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1941. In rapid order, he won three important awards, gathered a devoted following and dazzled the critics with his performances. "Playing of Rachmaninoff dimensions," cheered the Times's Olin Downes. ''Complete mastery, with prodigious strength and swiftness." Kapell appeared with 20 major orchestras, and his bouncing plume of black hair became familiar to concert audiences across...
...TRIAL' PROVES JUST THAT, headlined the no-nonsense Daily News. Wrote Olin Downes of the Times: "A praiseworthy performance of an opera that . . . did not deserve...
Goal for 1954. In the chemical industry, Du Pont's sales were up 8% to $440 million, while net was put at $1.21 a share, v. $1.14. Diversified Olin Industries boosted its net 23%, to $4,000,000. Mathieson Chemical, on sales of $60 million, netted $5,000,000, or 28% more than in 1952. In the steel industry, Republic was the first big company to report, and gave a hint of things to come. Its sales were up 52% (to $292 million), and net soared 172% (to $14 million), as compared with the strike-hampered third quarter...
...determine which are the "greatest" achievements, Lehman consulted specialists in each field, checked and coordinated their lists (e.g., Olin Downes's Symphonic Masterpieces, H. B. Lemon's From Galileo to Cosmic Rays) of what they considered the outstanding contributions. Because a man still living may yet produce his masterpiece, this study of scientists and artists covers mainly dead "greats...