Word: opera
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Park Hotel on Nanking Road, 200 Nationalist soldiers, "heroes of the defense of Shanghai," were wined & dined as the city's guests. On two-day furloughs, they relaxed in bathhouses, had haircuts "on the house," attended Chinese opera at the Heavenly Frog Theater, peepshows at the Great World Amusement Center. They even sat doggedly through Laurence Olivier's cinema Hamlet...
...chapel, as the last notes of the heralding chorales died away, the 236 members of the great festival choir filed into their seats in the chancel in back of the orchestra. Boston's E. Power Biggs slid onto his bench at the organ. The soloists, including the Metropolitan Opera's bass, Mack Harrell, took their seats in front. In decorous silence-there is no applause in Packer Chapel-Welsh-born Conductor Ifor Jones strode to the podium. After a darting look around, he lifted his hands to begin the great double-chorused Passion According to St. Matthew that...
...Mood. Manhattan concertgoers were just in the mood for what the quartet had to offer. (Says one quartet member: "You wait four hours at the opera for the Liebestod; we give it to them right off the bat.") And when the four boys had romped cleanly and lightly through their special arrangements of such numbers as Schubert's Impromptu in B-flat Major, the finale of Prokofiev's Classical Symphony, the first movement of Bach's Concerto in D Minor and some Chopin études -one to show that four pianos can ripple as fast...
...Canyon (Universal-International), a Technicolored horse opera, is not appreciably different from dozens of other westerns currently galloping around the neighborhood circuits. In a rambling, inconsequential fashion, it tells the story of a reformed, horse-loving outlaw (Howard Duff) who meets up with the pretty daughter (Ann Blyth) of a rich, horse-racing rancher (George Brent). Howard is out to capture a wild horse. Ann, despite some flimsy pretenses to the contrary, is bent on catching a tame husband. After a good deal of shooting, roping and racing, and without offending either the S.P.C.A. or the Johnston Office, both...
...cast, all of which has appeared in opera, radio, and concert performances, includes: Don Giovanni, Foster; Leporello, Matthew Lockhart; Masetto and II Commendatore, Edmund Hurshell; Don Ottavio, Eugene Cox; Donna Anna, Louise Scarbino; Zerlina, Joan Moynagh; and Donna Elvira, Louise Edson...