Word: toronto
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...British Broadcasting Corp. was boldly planning a year's project to play all 102 of his works. But as he neared his 80th birthday, in company with another of the century's great creators (see ART), Igor Feodorovich Stravinsky was his own best celebrator. In Toronto last week he shuffled to the podium, looking owlishly like Sir Cedric Hardwicke, and conducted the CBC Symphony in some of the best music to flow from his pen in years...
...Toronto audience, conscious that it had a legend before its eyes, applauded the program frenetically. The legend beamed. "I see you like it," he said after the Miniatures. "We do it again." To the delight of his fans, he promptly got the orchestra to do just that...
...appropriate size. Canadian-born, he sang in various church choirs and in am ateur operetta productions (Naughty Marietta}, but planned on a business career. He had worked up to tool buyer for the Hudson's Bay Co. department store when the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto heard of him and gave him a three-year scholarship, starting a career that led him at last to Covent Garden and a stunning success as Aeneas in Berlioz' The Trojans (TIME, June 17, 1957). A firm believer in the equal importance of acting and singing. Vickers is passionate...
...wish Canada would join the OAS and participate not only in the criticism but also in the responsibility of Latin American policy," Henry Raymont, Nieman Fellow on leave from UPI, told a group of University of Toronto exchange students yesterday...
...Schwarz's anti-Communism attracted the attention of two fundamentalist ministers, Rev. Carl McIntire of Collingswood, N.J., and Dr. T. T. Shields of Toronto,* who were touring Australia together. They persuaded him to travel to the U.S. for a two-month lecture tour on Communism...