Word: standardized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Presenting The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro on successive evenings not only gives the New England Opera Theater a repertoire of two standard works, it enables audiences to follow Beaumarchais' drama from the Count's frivolous courtship of Rosina through their tragi-comic marriage. Rossini's music for the first play perfectly reflects its brittle stylized comedy. And the score of Mozart's "sequel" (actually written thirty years earlier) given to the older characters an almost bitter-sweet maturity...
...music world - New York City Center's Lincoln Kirstein, Conductor Andre Kostelanetz, Clarinetist Benny Goodman - also commission music for their own use. Among the increasing number of people who commission music for private purposes: a Philadelphia lady who commissioned a piece in memory of her dog. Standard fees: about $1,000 for a symphony, $2,500 for an opera...
...loyalty to the company or because their political consciences forbade them to sing for the Communists. Still, the Municipal Opera made out, and when the rival companies mounted simultaneous productions of, say, Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, it was a tossup which was superior (although neither achieved the standard of the old Berlin State Opera, New York's Metropolitan or Milan's La Scala...
Rigid rules are often laid down to try to avoid such problems. Standard Oil of California, for example, classifies every employee from Type One (draperies, wall-to-wall carpeting, walnut desk, etc.) down to Type Four (no private office, oak desk). A big Manhattan company has set up a chart for every contingency in preparation for moving into a new building now under construction. A top-echelon man gets 280 sq. ft., "furnished to taste," with or without private washroom, depending on whether he is a director. Lesser lights will get 210 sq. ft., again furnished to taste...
...helped give a boost to such peace stocks as autos (up 112%) but also brought about repatriation of big French investments in Indo-China. Aciéries de Longwy (steel) jumped from $38 a share to $73; Suez Canal shares rose nearly 50% to $350. Most spectacular gain: Esso Standard of France, which soared almost 1,000% following the discovery of oil near Bordeaux (TIME, Sept...