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...than from clear approval. Jacob Javits, Paul Hoffman, Arthur Larsen, and even the President are not the effective policy makers who determine the record of an Administration or a Congress. The powers in a Republican Congress have been and would be Velde in the Committee on Un-American Activities, Tabor in budget-cutting, and our old friends Reese, Bricker, Malone, Welker, Short, Jenner and McCarthy...
...style which has kept it alive in repertory as an authentic domestic classic. For his fourth opera, premiered last week at the legend-laden Opera House in Central City, Colo., Composer Moore once again mined some rich native lore: the story of Colorado Silver Millionaire Horace Austin Warner ("HAW") Tabor and his blonde bride from Wisconsin, Elizabeth McCourt ("Baby") Doe. The opera's title: The Ballad of Baby...
...This dramatic story," says Composer Moore, "makes an ideal outline for an opera libretto." He is right. Born in Vermont in 1830, HAW Tabor caught the gold fever early, wandered with his wife Augusta to Colorado, and for 20 years alternated storekeeping and prospecting. He made his big strike at Leadville when he was 47; within a year he was a millionaire. To help celebrate his new affluence, he gave Denver a magnificent Opera House with his name engraved on a two-foot block of silver. Librettist John (Cabin in the Sky) Latouche picks up the story from there. Tabor...
...eked out an existence as a postmaster and by the sale of his lavish possessions (including his collection of $700 nightshirts). The story gets its special twist from the fact that Baby Doe remained faithful to him to the end. For 36 years after his death she lived on Tabor's last silver property in Leadville, rarely left the place and was found frozen to death there in a dilapidated shack...
...last match, the Yardlings went down to defeat, 7 to 4, at the hands of Tabor Academy...