Word: singerly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long wanted to bring Richard Strauss's Salome back to its boards. But since its last performance five years ago, with George Szell in the pit, and Soprano Lily D janel swirling Salome's seven veils, the Met had been unable to get the right conductor-singer team together to do it again, and do it well. And with New York's upstart City Opera Company getting bravos for its lively, scaled-down production (TIME, Dec. 13), the Met knew that if it revived Salome at all, it would have to be mighty good...
...Europe last summer, General Manager Edward Johnson* thought he had found the right singer: magenta-mopped Bulgarian Soprano Ljuba Welitsch, of the Vienna State Opera. Last spring, when pudgy little Fritz Reiner left the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in a huff, Johnson knew he could get the right conductor, too. Even 84-year-old Composer Strauss agreed with that. From Montreux, Switzerland, he wrote to Reiner, who had first conducted Salome under his stern gaze in Dresden 33 years ago: "That is good news. There are plenty of others who can do Brahms and Bruckner. Opera needs men like...
Last week the group tried to persuade comedian Bob Hope and singer Doris Day to entertain the freshmen. Both regretfully turned down the invitations, saying that they had "always wanted to come to Harvard, but crowded schedules prevented...
...Bolero. Surgeon Ivanissevich is also a singer. Last month, traveling with the presidential party on a long, dusty train ride back to the capital from the interior, Evita Perón said: "Ivan, why don't you sing us a bolero?" The courtly, white-suited, white-tied Secretary dug out a guitar, swung into a popular number called Luna Lunera...
Bartok composed his one-act, two-singer Bluebeard (one of his three theater works) in 1911. It was not produced until 1918, and then it met with no success. The plot was deadly dull: nothing but Bluebeard and fourth wife Judith walking from one door of the castle's great hall to another, until all its seven doors are unlocked. But neither radio listeners nor Dallas concertgoers (who saw a concert version) had to worry about that. Bluebeard's doors gave Bartok plenty of chance for variety, e.g., a broad, majestic theme in full brass when Judith opens...