Word: opera
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Louis is a Northern town with Southern accents, where Jim Crow walks a tightrope. Negroes are not segregated on streetcars and buses, in the ballparks, or at the Municipal Opera. But in restaurants, the public schools and movie houses, they are. Last week the delicate balance, a matter of timing and tradition, was snapped. A reporter casually asked the city's new welfare director, John J. O' Toole, whether Negroes could be allowed to swim in all the city's public pools. There was no law saying they couldn't, so O' Toole answered...
...composer (Robert Russell Bennett) had tried to dignify the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball club with a Symphony in D (TIME, May 26, 1941). Last year George (Tubby the Tuba) Kleinsinger had the Metropolitan Opera's Robert Merrill warbling his Brooklyn Baseball Cantata. Last week, all such pretenses of musical dignity were gone, but with two new tunes in their bat box, the National League's colorful Dodgers were slugging hard in the jump, jive and jukebox league...
...Broadway's smash hit musical, starring Opera Star Ezio Pinza as a middle-aged French planter...
...eight days, did not slow it down. Most popular chorus: the Night Song, in which the audience is divided, for singing purposes, into owls, herons, turtledoves and chaffinches. After they had joined gleefully in the final Coaching Song, there was nothing left to do but applaud themselves and the opera's makers. Curly-haired Composer Britten and Librettist Eric Crozier (who also wrote the book for Britten's third successful opera, Albert Herring*) had to take a dozen curtain calls...
...native Flagstad," Norfolk-born Dorothy Maynor has gone a long way. She has sung with most of the great U.S. orchestras, crisscrossed the U.S. and South America with concert tours. However, like her famed contralto counterpart, Marian Anderson, she has not yet been invited to sing at the Metropolitan Opera...