Word: tucker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TUCKER'S TOWN, Bermuda, March 21--President Eisenhower and Prime Minister Macmillan today reached "a gratifying measure of agreement" in their talks on how to ease Middle East tension...
President Eisenhower and Prime Minister Macmillan last night opened their American-British partnership-mending conference with an informal "working dinner," in Tucker's Town, Bermuda. The two chiefs got into preliminary discussions over the table at their midocean club conference headquarters...
...black high-collared rehearsal coat, Arturo Toscanini walked into NBC's Manhattan Studio 8-H and launched a Robert Shaw-trained chorus and a handful of soloists into the music he loved: Verdi's melodramatic, tearfully tender Aïda. With cajolery, threats and sarcasm ("Mr. Tucker," he inquired scathingly of Tenor Richard Tucker, "do you love a woman?"), he shaped a magnificently precise and passionate performance, presented to NBC televiewers and listeners in the spring of 1949. When RCA Victor decided to cut records from the broadcast tapes, Toscanini returned from retirement in 1954 to conduct...
...with his recording of Verdi's Otello and Falstaff as his operatic testament. The NBC Symphony plays with brilliant coloring and syllable-sharp instrumental detail ; the singers-some less than top drawer-are whipped almost beyond their powers to high moments of musical exaltation. The Met's Tucker, singing the full dramatic tenor role of Radames for the first time, has big, ringing power when he needs it, joined to a fervent, melting lyricism. Titian-haired Herva Nelli, Toscanini's favorite soprano, sings perhaps the finest Aïda of her career with rare intensity...
...Sullivan Show (Sun. 8 p.m., CBS). Renata Tebaldi and Richard Tucker sing an excerpt from La Bohème, but only a snippet because Ed & Co. think good mu sic is scaring away audience...