Word: premi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weather in Private William Saroyan's private world was wonderful: The Human Comedy, his first novel, was the new Book-of-the-Month Club bestseller; The Human Comedy, his first movie, had a blinding première on Broadway; Carol Marcus, striking 18-year-old actress (in two Saroyan shows), daughter of Bendix Aviation Vice President Charles Marcus, girl friend of Gloria Vanderbilt de Cicco, became Mrs. William Saroyan. They were married in Dayton, where the 34-year-old groom writes training films for the Signal Corps. The ceremony was quiet: so was the unpredictable playwright, who shattered...
...propagandized among conductors and opera houses. The league's audiences sometimes hissed; music critics usually snorted. But not all of the league's musical bombshells were duds. It introduced U.S. listeners to the phenomenal Russian talents of Serge Prokofieff and Dmitri Shostakovich. It gave the U.S. ballet première of Igor Stravinsky's brilliant Le Sacre du Printemps...
...Hoagy Carmichael's The Cranky Old Yank, one of the first U.S. war songs to be written about tanks, was tried out last week (amid appreciative whoops) on the same tank corps that heard Stokowski's Shostakovich (see col. 3). An official première of The Cranky Old Yank is scheduled by Bing Crosby this week on his Kraft Cheese broadcast...
...Royal. Before the first strip of film had gone into the enlarger, three topflight U.S. conductors, all Shostakovich champions-sleek, platinum-haired Leopold Stokowski, the Cleveland Orchestra's Artur Rodzinski, Boston's Serge Koussevitzky-were locked in a polite battle royal for the glory of conducting the premi...
...première of a new opera took place last week in the cotton-mill and college town of Spartanburg, S.C. That fact was not surprising. Since 1939 Spartanburg has been staging spring music festivals with a fine exploring, self-sufficient spirit. It has no rich backers, no imported stars; it keeps to its promise of "no performances of hackneyed works." Instead it has put on with local talent such rarities as Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, Mozart's Requiem. So last week, again festival time in Spartanburg, saw the production of Ernst Bacon's A Tree...