Word: pit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long wanted to bring Richard Strauss's Salome back to its boards. But since its last performance five years ago, with George Szell in the pit, and Soprano Lily D janel swirling Salome's seven veils, the Met had been unable to get the right conductor-singer team together to do it again, and do it well. And with New York's upstart City Opera Company getting bravos for its lively, scaled-down production (TIME, Dec. 13), the Met knew that if it revived Salome at all, it would have to be mighty good...
Evil in Purple. What a sell-out audience saw when the curtain finally went up on Salome last week, they would not soon forget. From the pit (which Reiner had ordered lowered to its bottom notch so he and the huge, augmented orchestra could try to keep out of sight), they heard the power, brilliance and detail of Strauss's music as they had seldom heard it before. Onstage, they saw an incandescently evil Salome, flashing in green, purple and red, who commanded the performance from beginning to end. Soprano Welitsch had critics reaching back for comparisons to Olive...
...Snake Pit. Hollywood's hard, honest look at mental illness, with a chillingly good performance by Olivia de Havilland (TIME...
...Leland S. McKittrick charged yesterday that compulsory national health insurance would place the emphasis on quantity, not on quality, of medical service and would require the federal treasury to become a bottomless pit...
...Snake Pit. Hollywood's hard, honest look at mental illness, with a chillingly good performance by Olivia de Havilland (TIME...