Word: premi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...musical triumph. An evening or so later, Carlos Chávez, Mexico's top music man and a major composer in any hemisphere, joined some 2,600 concertgoers to hear his Symphony No. 6 performed by the New York Philharmonic and conducted by Leonard Bernstein in its world première. Nearly everyone was disappointed...
THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Première of a new satirical revue of topical comment...
...competent player of every other instrument in the orchestra, and a greatly admired conductor. In a single day at the Berlin Festival in 1960, Hindemith conducted four choirs, played a three-string vielle in a recital of 14th century songs, then sat back to listen to the world première of his Motets for Tenor and Piano. "Almost overpoweringly impressive," wrote Die Welt of the new composition...
Died. Michael Delia Rocca, 62, the Long Island shoemaker who answered The $64,000 Question on CBS-TV in 1956 (a 14-part question involving Wagner premières, Caruso's teachers and a 1908 performance of Aïda), was never involved in subsequent scandals, spent much of his prize bankrolling his hobby, amateur opera performances; of cancer; in Baldwin...
...tale of dissolution that unfolded before the first-night audience in Venice's Theater of St. John and St. Paul had the tang of vintage Tennessee Williams. It was rife with adultery and assassination, seduction and suicide, torture and a touch of transvestism. But the première took place 321 years ago, the format was operatic, and its author was the revered "father of modern opera" himself, Claudio Monteverdi...