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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reason presumably connected with his nationality, insisted on writing French opera at a time when Wagner and Verdi had conclusively proved that the promise of great opera lay elsewhere. Blind to their examples, Bizet wrote six or seven good numbers which have since become standards and filled out the rest of Carmen with tedium and theft. The Second Act quintet is bad imitation Mozart, the Third Act trio bad imitation Rossini, and Micaela's Air good imitation Meverbeer, which is just as bad. Carmen proves Bizet to be the Milton Berle of music...

Author: By Stephen Kaplan, | Title: Carmen | 3/7/1968 | See Source »

Miss Horne's greatest triumph lay in overcoming her own substantial bulk. In the first act, largely because of Maestro Lewis' absurdly fast tempi in the Habanera and Seguidilla, her Carmen seemed only a winsome, fat slut, but the virtuosity of her singing and acting for the rest of the opera made it easy to believe every man in sight found her irresistible. Her sensuous voice moved with perfect flexibility from the dark richness of a Leontyne Price to the brilliance of a Birgit Nilsson. The weight of her low register in the Tarot Scene was miraculous, and the delicacy...

Author: By Stephen Kaplan, | Title: Carmen | 3/7/1968 | See Source »

Harvard's Terry Driscoll then scored by Cole at 3:09, with help from Steve Owen and Cavanagh. The rest of the period was a study in frustration, neither team taking advantage of numerous penalties...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cavanagh, Durno Lead Freshmen To Overtime Upset Over Yale Six | 3/5/1968 | See Source »

Talking about next year, Gallagher said that "the main trouble with me personally and I think for the rest of the team, was that we went into games either too cocky or too complacent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gallagher Leads Cagers In Scoring, Rebounding | 3/5/1968 | See Source »

...AFTER getting kicked out of that first Catholic high school, I took a vacation for the rest of the month before going to an easy school, also a Catholic boys' school, where I knew kids from grade school...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The True Story of a Disenchanted But Not Hung-Up Son of Harvard | 3/4/1968 | See Source »

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