Word: pits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...impromptu. As the curtain went up, a man in a grey double-breasted suit strolled on to the nearly bare stage, clarinet in hand. Taking his time, he eventually reached a stool in a downstage corner. He tootled a few warm-up phrases; then the orchestra in the pit joined in a discreet background from Aaron Copland's Concerto for Clarinet and String Orchestra. Thereafter, Jerome Robbins' Pied Piper kept its happy air of the impromptu, but it was scarcely relaxed...
...current outbreak is so severe that Communist authorities are worried about a drop in output. They have ordered miners to wet down the pit walls, to lay the dust, and to wear long rubber boots. But it is impossible to suppress the dust entirely, and the Russians are not copying the German plan of rotating the miners after two years. Before that is likely to happen, many a Schneeberg slave worker will be dead...
...waiting music" that introduces the third act of Madame Butterfly. In the pit of Chicago's Civic Opera House, Conductor Laszlo Halasz turned to the first-violin section of his New York City Opera Company orchestra to urge them on. Few in the audience noticed what happened next, but it made the most controversial musical mystery of the week...
...face ... If Halasz is looking for trouble he's going to get it-especially in Chicago." Petrillo stoked his boiler until just before curtain time for the next performance, and then, with the audience in their seats for Carmen, ordered the musicians out of the pit until Halasz apologized...
...state of world politics. I think there is room for both Gog and Magog. But be careful, my Lord Mayor, to keep them from colliding, for, if that happens, both would be smashed to atoms and we should have to begin all over again-from the bottom of the pit...