Word: solos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anachronism, Senior Birdman Max Conrad, 58, still flies the featherweight flivvers of his youth, stocks his cockpit with a rhyming dictionary for versifying while aloft, has made 79 solo crossings of the Atlantic. Last week, the latter-day Lindbergh landed his Piper Aztec at Miami International Airport after logging a 25,457-mile trip around the world. His time-eight days. 18 hours, 49 minutes-chopped 20 days off the previous record for light piston craft...
Originally, Schoenberg scored Gurrelieder for four choruses, five solo voices, and a greatly augmented orchestra, including four harps and a celesta (in last week's performance, Stokowski managed with a standard-sized orchestra and only one choir). All this musical effort supports a series of songs linked by orchestral interludes and based on a medieval Danish story somewhat similar to the Tristan and Isolde legend. King Waldemar has married for political reasons but continues to pine for the Princess Tove. to whom he has presented his castle at Gurre. Tove is put to death by the queen, and Waldemar...
...most traditional (and most delightfully Radcliffe) part of the show, the Radcliffe chorus line, made its annual appearance. These attractive young ladies did exactly what was expected of them with the coy naivete which distinguishes Radcliffe kicklines from other kicklines the world over. The graceful solo dancing of Mary Ellen Klee in the first act finale was a delight to behold, and made one wish for more of the same...
...Although no Negro had ever sung a solo role there at the time. The first: Marian Anderson, who in 1955 long past her vocal prime-appeared in the minor part of the fortune teller Ulrica in Verdi's A Masked Ball. Following Anderson, three Negroes have had lead roles at the Met: Baritone Robert McFerrin, Sopranos Mattiwilda Dobbs and Gloria Davy...
...second period Bland took the spotlight away from Forstman, turning away six shots including one by John Schley, who broke away on a solo flight and faked cleverly from Bland's right to left before shooting from a few feet out. Yale fought especially hard during the second period, and tried hard to capitalize on two Harvard penalties which overlapped and for 26 seconds dwindled the Crimson attack to a forward and two defensemen...