Word: opera
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Finally, welcome to Peter Grimes and Benjamin Britten. Opera people everywhere hail its coming. Nevertheless, we shall always find inspiration in the great procession of music dramas and composers from Britten right back to Lully and Gluck...
Eleanor Steber, 31-year-old Metropolitan Opera soprano, was summoned to Florida's Southern College (Lakeland) to be made an honorary Doctor of Music...
Last week, Manhattan got its first chance to hear dashing, 26-year-old Di Stefano. New York's Italian opera fans, a demonstrative lot, were out in strength. As the Duke in Verdi's Rigoletto, Giuseppe's soaring tenor was always good, if not always golden; and he had a dramatic way of hanging on to his ringing top notes until the claque started. The claque's din was soon equaled by the audience's "bravos...
Nice last week was holding the first International Jazz Festival. Jazz fans from all over Western Europe (including G.I.s given special leave from Germany) flocked to it. In Nice's plum-plush opera house, they heard jazz from seven nations, including three brands of U.S. stuff. Ex-Ellington Trumpeter Rex Stewart and his sextet, garish in grey-green homespun and corn-yellow ties, set the joint jumping. But when Louis & his boys† burned a way through Rockin' Chair, St. Louis Blues and That's My Desire (with 200-lb. Velma Middleton rocking the lyrics), the fans...
Said a white-haired usherette at the Nice opera house, preparing for next week's opera season, "It will be good to get back to oldtime tranquillity. My head is like a swollen squash...