Word: ser
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Doris Day; Columbia). More about the mystery of life, but with a fatalistic twist and a helpful touch of peasant philosophy. The answer to all queries: "The future's not ours to see; Que será, ser...
Bayreuth (July 22-Aug. 21) will present seven Wagner operas (The Ring cycle, Flying Dutchman, Tannhdüser...
With opening night safely under its belt, the company settled down to its annual routine. During the season it will present 22 operas from its repertory, eight of them new Bing stagings of recent seasons. Two more-Rossini's Barber of Seville and Wagner's Tannhdüser-will get completely new productions this winter, while five others will get a cut-rate (about $10,000 apiece) reconditioning...
Born in 1893 in Germany's turbulent Ruhr, Gomez was actually Wilhelm Zais-ser. He had got his taste for fighting in Germany's World War I army, in which he rose to the rank of lieutenant. When the bloody "workers' rebellion" broke out in the Ruhr in 1923, Zaisser organized workers' brigades. He was already known as the "Red General of the Ruhr." Taken prisoner, he escaped to Russia, where he became a Soviet citizen and a colonel in the Red army. During the Nazi regime, he returned to Germany, a leader and organizer...
Houston listeners, hearing such recorded works as Parsifal, Tannhdüser, St. Matthew Passion, all complete, were enthusiastic, wrote more than 50 letters a day praising the program. The four sponsors were equally pleased: one of them got enough new business in six weeks to pay for his investment three times over. The program's first three trial months have been so successful that this week it is being expanded to twelve hours...