Word: performances
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the Nazis ordered the Kulturbund to perform only in secluded synagogues, Steinberg took its best musicians to Palestine, where he and Polish Violinist Bronislaw Hubermann formed the Palestine Symphony Orchestra. Hubermann invited Arturo Toscanini to conduct the first public concert in Tel Aviv. Toscanini listened to a few well-rehearsed bars, nodded his approval and mumbled: "Molto bene [very good...
Martha Graham and her company will perform in another "special event" for the symposium, as will the Collegiate Chorale of New York, with Robert Shaw conducting. Announcement will be made late of the details of the concert programs, which will be open to as many of the general public as can be accommodated...
...Houses particularly, the opportunity for casual discussions at meal times with tutors or friends, characteristic of the College's normal leisurely pace, is one consideration that limits "doubling up." The length of time it takes for all the occupants of a suite to perform their morning ablutions and thence to classes is another...
...sand to reproduce for cameras the suspense and release of that moment at Alamogordo when the Atomic Age cut loose its first appalling kick in history's womb. According to New York Timesman William L. Laurence, some witnesses at Alamogordo were moved by the actual event to perform a kind of primordial fire dance. But history-or rather the human ability to stare history straight in the eyes-is not yet tough enough to endure that sight. Instead of the dance, the movie shows Conant & Bush, still stretched on the ground, just solemnly shaking hands...
Masters Missing. Stars of Salzburg's great days like Arturo Toscanini, Lotte Lehmann and Bruno Walter had refused invitations to perform. Instead the opening-night audience listened to 6 ft. 2 in. Hans Hotter, a Munich Opera baritone, sing a roughly hewn but virile hero in Mozart's Don Giovanni. The cast included a promising, pretty, 30-year-old Bulgarian soprano named Ljuba Welitsch, who was the hit of the Vienna opera season in Salome. Don Ottavio was sung by Yugoslav Tenor Anton Dermota, whose performance was uneven, but at its best better than any Don Ottavio that...