Word: performs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...understood that Miss McKenna rejected opportunities to perform at other summer festivals and that she chose Boston out of affection for the site of her earlier successes...
...radio, the Bell Telephone Hour was a musical showpiece. Last week it plunged into TV, with superb results. As distinctively package-produced by Henry Jaffe (The Chevy Show, Shirley Temple Storybook), Bell's Adventures in Music, first of four NBC shows this season, tastefully allowed top artists to perform without interruption, even dispensed with an M.C. The cast: Actor Maurice Evans narrating for the uncanny Baird puppets (TIME, Dec. 29), Opera Star Renata Tebaldi (two exciting arias from Madame Butterfly), the piano team of Gold and Fizdale and members of the New York City Ballet. Warmest, most memorable part...
Since then, McDonnell has come along fast. From a strictly Navy supplier, the company became a pillar of the Air Force with $1.2 billion worth of orders for its burly F101 Voodoo jet, a plane fast (1,200 m.p.h.) and versatile enough to perform every job from tactical A-bomber to all-weather interceptor. McDonnell went into missiles and helicopters, landed an $8,000,000 contract for its XV1 convertiplane, another $45 million for its high-speed Quail bomber decoy drone. Latest project: the supersonic (Mach 2 plus) F4H fighter, which beat out Chance Vought's F8U3 Crusader...
MEBAC has proposed that the center be used exclusively by the Cambridge Drama Festival in 1959 by both groups in 1960 if Group 20 agrees not to perform anywhere else that year...
...justly famous. Following this came one of the group's specialties, a group of Russian Folk songs, selected from The Fireside Book of Siberian Laments, an anthology which is second only to Bach's Clavieruebung in the ranks of the great musical collections. The ringers were generous enough to perform seven, the last in response to demands for an encore telephoned in during the intermission. It is hard to choose a favorite from among these miniature masterpieces, mainly because they are somewhat difficult to tell apart; the finest from an artistic point of view is the one entitled "Little Ivan...