Word: pits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Players had the difficult task of living up to high dramatic and musical standards. Jim Paul conducting the entire show without a score, a token of the professionalism that permeated the production. Under his baton the pit orchestra and several notches above the usual for G&S at Agassiz. In spite of occasionally poor intonation and some floundering in more technical passages, Paul's musicians played with sensitivity and variety, giving Yeomen by far the most exciting theatre orchestra heard around here for along time. The chorus has been well-drilled by Vince Canzoneri, and they negotiated the tongue-twisting...
...distribution, and lined up more than 20 radio networks. These tie-ins enabled him to sign such top singers as Jon Vickers and Régine Crespin, and he even persuaded the Berlin senate to let the city's famed Philharmonic make its first appearance in an opera pit...
HAYDN: SYMPHONIES NOS. 1, 2 and 3 (Odyssey). The late Max Goberman was a protean figure on the New York musical scene. He was pit conductor for West Side Story, and his ambition was to record all 104 symphonies of Haydn. This record is the elegant overture to the unfinished project-a crisp, clear reading that points up Haydn's melodic questions and answers, the asides and one-liners that crowd his scores...
Lanky freshman Jim Voleman looked up at the high jump bar set at 6 ft. 4 in--higher than he had ever jumped in his life. Seconds before, Keith Colburn had streaked past the jump pit on his way to a victory on the anchor leg of the two-mile relay. That win put Harvard just a point and a half behind Princeton...
Nearly everyone in Yale's Coxe Cage had gathered around the pit where Coleman and Princeton jumper John Miller were about to decide last Friday's Big Three freshman championship in the meet's final event. Yale was out of it. In fact, everyone was out of it except Miller and Coleman...