Word: priestess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wanted to hear would come off the wax. In her weekly sessions, she had worked 42 hours, making retake after retake, to record 45 minutes of music. At 70 (her birthday is actually July 5), the somewhat mystic, sometimes earthy little Polish-born woman is the acknowledged high priestess of the harpsichord, the sweet-sounding, twangy-bangy instrument she rescued from oblivion 50 years ago. She did not need much preparation before sitting down to record...
...open up as Aida. He had picked three newcomers: slim Norwegian Contralto Eva Gustavson (Amneris), who arrived in the U.S. last October, young Canadian Bass-Baritone Dennis Harbour (the King of Egypt), who a fortnight ago won the Met's radio auditions, and Soprano Teresa Randall (the Priestess), a finalist in the same contest. Baritone Giuseppe Valdengo (Amonasro), big Bass Norman Scott (Ramfis), Tenor Virginio Assandri (the Messenger), were all Toscanini veterans. NBC was doing its part in the old top-network tradition-spending an estimated $70,000 of its own money to put the show on just...
Married. Martha Graham, 46, deadpan high priestess of the modern dance (and radio's Miss Hush of 1947); and Erick Hawkins, 39, her dancing partner; both for the first time; in Santa Fe, N.Mex...
...Publisher Laughlin has pieced and pasted together a decade's representative pieces from his experimenters. Among Spearhead's contributors: E. E. Cummings, William Carlos Williams-both now established off-center poets; Karl Shapiro, Randall Jarrell, dithyrambling Henry Miller, William Saroyan, High Priestess Gertrude Stein, plus a host of others known only in isolated literary circles...
Loyal Martha Graham cultists usually blame themselves if they fail to understand their high priestess. Less devoted followers of the No. 1 woman of modern dance are only apt to be confused as they wander desperately through her cryptic program notes to see what she is trying to tell them. Last week, to packed houses in Manhattan, Dance-Dramatist Graham unleashed two new messages for the cultists, the confused and the curious...