Word: tour
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Ted Kennedy travels, there is no shortage of crowds. He even brings his own. On a tour of the Middle East last week, the Massachusetts Senator guided an entourage that included his wife Joan, daughter Kara, sisters Jean Smith and Pat Lawford, and her daughter Victoria. Sandwiched into their 6 a.m.-to-midnight schedule was a visit to the religious shrine in Meshed, Iran, where the women donned the hooded black robes required for entry into Moslem holy places. Elsewhere, however, there was less tourism and more talk of politics. How would Kennedy respond to a presidential draft...
...Frank Sinatra keeps doing things his way, he may soon have to begin his second retirement. Now completing a five-country singing tour through Europe, Frank found his blue eyes staring into empty seats in West Germany last week. Half the 10,000 seats in Munich's Olympia Hall were vacant for his first concert, and a second performance in Frankfurt fared almost as badly, causing Sinatra to cancel an appearance in Berlin and refund more than $85,000 to organizers of his West German tour. "Sinatra just is not part of the nostalgia wave now rolling over Germany...
...twice the tab in New York. No price was too high to hear the Meto, as the Japanese call the visitors. The ticket holders sat still and intent during the opera. Not a late straggler nor a cough marred the concentration. The company had just finished its annual spring tour of the U.S., which featured Traviata, and so the production was in crisp form. Conductor Richard Bonynge slowed up now and then for the singers' benefit, but the orchestra, playing with precision and rich texture, expressed most of the considerable drama in Verdi's score...
...trip abroad was only the Met's third in 91 years (the previous visits were to Paris in 1910 and 1966). From Minneapolis, where the company had concluded its spring tour the night before, two planes flew over the Arctic Circle to Tokyo. One was a cargo jet holding 48,000 Ibs. of musical instruments, wardrobe trunks, props, makeup kits, shoes, nails, hammers and extra pin wire to hold the sets together. The other was a Boeing 747 carrying soloists, choristers, dancers, musicians, technicians, managers, wives, husbands, children-and a jittery Franco Corelli, who hates...
Bizet and Bach. The notion of a tour came from Kazuko Hillyer, a Japanese-born concert manager based in New York. When she put the idea to General Manager Schuyler Chapin two years ago, he replied: "Go away and don't bother me. That will cost millions." It did cost that, $2.5 million to be precise, but Hillyer found someone to pick up the tab: the Nagoya-based Chubu Nippon Broadcasting Co., which decided to sponsor the tour in honor of its 25th anniversary...