Word: premi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Invitation to Music (Wed. 11:30 p.m., CBS). CBS Symphony gives Charles Ives's Third Symphony its radio premi...
...Lively Performance." Dr. Koussevitzky had commissioned Peter Grimes in memory of his late wife, and he proudly proclaimed it the greatest opera since Carmen. He did not conduct its U.S. première, but left it to his prize protégé, Manhattan's Leonard Bernstein. The crowd in Tanglewood's barnlike opera theater got three hours of violent and raw emotion, and agreed that in plot, at least, Peter Grimes had much in common with Bizet's lurid tale of smuggling and murder...
...words were the kind of stuff that Norman Corwin writes-sometimes graphic, frequently inflated. In the background, Leonard Bernstein's New York City Symphony played music that had more than a touch of Shostakovich. It was the première of The Airborne Symphony, Marc (The Cradle Will Rock) Blitzstein's 50-minute history of aviation for orchestra, chorus, speaker and soloists...
...second night, la repetition generate, is the real first night. To it are invited topflight critics, big-shot editors, notables in the arts, gossip columnists, diplomats, politicians, the cream of society. Not till the third night, or première, can the general public buy seats, and then only the worst...
...world première in Pasadena because two earnest young Playhouse couples, Jane and Robert Claborne, and Toni and Lamont Johnson, while touring France with the USO last year, phoned Miss Stein in Paris and asked if they might call on her. "Certainly," she replied, "you certainly may come up, please come up, please come up right away." They did, and in the midst of being slapped down for their opinions on French politics, were snapped up as "perfect" for her new play...