Word: sullivans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...offers were pouring in: Dowager Queen Elisabeth of Belgium personally invited him to play at the Brussels World's Fair (he may do so, with the Philadelphia Orchestra); Impresario Sol Hurok, who once passed him up, tried unsuccessfully to get Cliburn under option; Ed Sullivan put in his bid for Cliburn's first Stateside TV appearance. Columbia Artists announced plans to bring over Moscow Conductor Kiril Kondrashin to accompany Cliburn on May 19 in a Carnegie Hall duplication of his prizewinning concert, with later performances in Philadelphia and Washington. Cliburn's concert fee jumped in a week...
...Sorcerer has been given an outstanding production by the Gilbert and Sullivan players. One might even call it bewitching...
Going to Gilbert and Sullivan openings at Harvard is in some ways like watching a juggler perform. The local players have already performed marvelous feats and one wonders if they can keep it up. It is pleasant indeed to report that The Sorcerer meets the high standard previously set by the G & S Players...
...twelve he was transferred to Roborough, a somewhat better-known school, where the dramatic society specialized in Gilbert & Sullivan. Since Alec could not (and still cannot) carry a tune, he shifted scenery. One day he ventured to say he wanted to be an actor. One of the masters sadly shook his head. "You'll never make an actor, Guinness...
...past three years, perhaps even longer, the Winthrop House Music Society has played the dramatic field at Harvard cautiously, sticking closely to tired-and-true Gilbert and Sullivan productions. Last night, however, the Victorian wonder boys got the sack as the Winthrop House Music Society staged a successful and entertaining performance of Of Thee I Sing...