Word: snippets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sullivan Show (Sun. 8 p.m., CBS). Renata Tebaldi and Richard Tucker sing an excerpt from La Bohème, but only a snippet because Ed & Co. think good mu sic is scaring away audience...
...pieces, the dancing lesson called "Konservatoriet" and the pas de deux from the "Flower Festival in Genzano," they found it-gay, pretty romanticism instead of the drawn-steel tension of the Diaghilev tradition, verve and enthusiasm instead of icy perfection. Surprise of the program was a snippet from Coppélia, choreographed in 1896 by Danish Hans Beck after the French ballet-master, Saint-Léon. If the Delibes music was as familiar as an old song, the peasanty dancing was like hearing it sung in another language, and audiences loved the piquant combination...
...setting up a Russian Council of I.P.R. (with Stalin's brother-in-law, A. S. Svanidze, as a member), had made seven trips to Russia between 1929 and 1945, served as president of Russian War Relief during World War II. From I.P.R.'s files came an additional snippet: in 1938, he recommended Communist Secretary Earl Browder to a Canadian club as a possible speaker -"really very well informed, and contrary to the public view, is 100% American." (The club declined...
...Pagliaccis have clung to as they sobbed the clown's famous aria. Tenor Ramon Vinay did his sobbing in front of a dismal little curtain that was lowered behind him. As at the Lemonade Opera, perky choristers danced on from time to time with props and a snippet of scenery. All in all, what had been bright staging in Greenwich Village seemed pretty thin tinsel at the gilded...