Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pittsburgh has had its Carnegie International art exhibits for a half century but, until last January, its musical life was little more than its fine orchestra and a list of visiting artists. Then the Allegheny Conference on Community Affairs, which had pushed programs to clear the city's smoke-blackened air and give its oppressive architecture a face lifting, set up a committee to see what it could do about the city's musical soul...
About the same time, Composer Harris, the festival's executive director, touched Pittsburgh's modern Medici (the A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Howard Heinz Endowment, Edgar J. Kaufmann Charitable Trust) for most of the estimated $50,000 cost, got a 62-man international jury to select the world's most important composers...
...bring the city closer to its festival, top brass in labor, education and religion got busy and sent out 60 separate choruses to give free downtown concerts as advance publicity. Pittsburgh's Mayor David L. Lawrence was pleased: "This is all part of the city's continuing renaissance...
...Steel's top brass drove out from Pittsburgh last week to the company's most famous plant, Homestead. It is the plant that Andrew Carnegie once owned, and it was the keystone of the great 1901 merger on which U.S. Steel was built. Now, half a century later, Chairman-President Ben Fairless and his aides came to witness another milestone: the pouring of Big Steel's one billionth ton of metal. Never before in world history had one company made as much; it was twice as much as all the mills in Russia had ever made...
...Pittsburgh 24, San Francisco...