Word: performance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...group will perform Haydn's Symphony No. 44, known as the "Mourning Symphony," and will give the first local performance of Mendelssohn's Symphony No.1 (actually his 13th...
...seven-member commission appointed by President Johnson to investigate the assassination of John Kennedy got started last week - but just barely. It met twice in Washington's National Archives building, performed a few routine organizational chores, voted to ask Congress for subpoena powers, and called it a week. "This commission has a sad and solemn duty to perform," said Chief Justice Earl Warren, chairman of the investigating panel. But, he added glumly, "we are operating somewhat in the dark." A first step toward getting the inquiry off the ground would be the receipt of an FBI report...
...George Balanchine conceived his ballet, the Prodigal Son, as a poem of bitter passions, a lantern carried into the darkness to light an anguished face. Balanchine responded to Prokofiev's music by composing a gymnastic grotesquerie, free of all the gestures of classical ballet. The only dancer to perform the title role since Prodigal Son was revived by Balanchine's New York City Ballet four years ago has been Edward Villella, whose athletic command of the part was soon being praised as a great dance portrayal. Last week, to open the new season, Prodigal Son was danced again...
...Mona who hits the skids. She soon turns up doing the tango in a purple brocade dress, and next time Stephen sees her she is an expectant mother whose life hangs on a delicate thread of Catholic dogma. To save Mona, doctors ask permission to perform a fetal craniotomy, crushing the infant's head. Fermoyle refuses, Mona dies in childbirth, and the baby grows up into a happy, well-adjusted niece, so that takes care of that...
...finest opera houses into what is very likely the best opera house in the world, and in an opening festival that will not end until New Year's Eve, the general German mourning over the assassination of President Kennedy could cancel only a single night's perform ance. Tickets sold quickly for as much as $125 a performance, and though a feeble Meistersinger drew grouchy reactions from the press, the patrons of opera who could afford to attend found the experience a joy reminiscent of la belle epoque...