Word: premi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York. For 24 solid years, ever since the bearded, quizzical French flutist Georges Barrère founded it, the sodality has met regularly for the sole purpose of discussing, playing and listening to the flute. A few years ago the club erected a flutistic milestone by presenting the U.S. premiére of Henry Brandt's Concerto for Flute with an Orchestra of Ten Flutes...
Ernest Hemingway kept on raising short stories at his farm near Havana while For Whom the Bell Tolls had its première in Manhattan (see p. 55). The producers planned to send a print of the film (99 pounds) down to the farm...
...their customers. During one performance of Faust, an expectant mother is said to have turned to her husband, remarking: "Pierre, I do not think I can wait for the ballet." Many a French opera, including Samson, L'Arlésienne and Hérodiade, had a New Orleans première before reaching Manhattan. Then, in 1919, the New Orleans French Opera House burned to the ground...
Manhattan audiences saw the première of a movie that was primarily a political event: the screen version of former Ambassador Joseph E. Davies' best-selling Mission to Moscow. Considerable hubbub had preceded the picture's release; Trotskyites had screamed even before they saw it. Last week critics decided that Mission to Moscow is as explosive as a blockbuster. For Hollywood, circumscribed for years by political timidity, the film was audacious in the extreme. It is also pro-Russian and pro-New Deal in the extreme: it takes the flat view that Joseph Stalin and Franklin Roosevelt...
...Russian, Spanish and English) as only Robeson can sing them. Included is the stirring Song of the Plains, popularized on previous records by the Red Army Chorus of the U.S.S.R., two rough-hewn numbers from Dzerzhinsky's Soviet opera Quiet Flows the Don, scheduled for its Manhattan première this summer...