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Bing made it a point not to appear personally friendly with the artists who worked for him. He did yearn, though, to be on better terms with Conductor Herbert von Karajan. Bing brought Karajan to the Met in 1967 to stage Wagner's Ring cycle, and found him "unquestionably the outstanding artistic phenomenon of my later years at the Metropolitan." Friendship with Karajan Bing could not manage. "You offer him a cigarette, he says he doesn't smoke," says Bing. "You offer him a drink, he doesn't drink. Let's have lunch; he never...
...fourth and final movement seemed dedicated to Wagner - first the somber three-note motif from the Ring cycle, then a bare but undisguised hint of love theme from Tristan und Isolde...
...Fanciful theories abounded in the after-concert chatter. Rossini's William Tell is based on one of Schiller's strongest freedom plays. Was Shostakovich, by quoting from the opera, signaling his support of Alexander Solzhenitsyn and other persecuted Soviet dissidents? By incorporating touches of Wagner, was Shostakovich perhaps giving artistic voice to the new spirit of friendship between the Russian and German peoples? So it went. It seemed that the new symphony, already recorded by Ormandy for RCA, might almost become as popular for guessing games as Elgar's Enigma Variations...
...back from the beach." So it seemed. Many of the returned vacationers packed into TV Interviewer Barbara Walters' Manhattan apartment for her 41st birthday party. Among the celebrators: Walter Cronkite, Jacqueline Susann and Phyllis Cerf, Bennett's widow, with her steady escort, former New York Mayor Robert Wagner. Then the door opened and in walked a man who introduced himself: "I'm Martha Mitchell's husband." "Yes, how well you look," said Radio-TV Announcer Ben Grauer to former Attorney General John Mitchell. Barely unpacked after her move from Washington, Martha Mitchell was warmly welcomed...
...flunked out of the opera workshop at the University of Southern California. To sing Carmen at that age, as the director insisted, would ruin her voice, she felt. Yet at 21, she was one of Los Angeles' more prominent singers, performing Palestrina and Brahms with the Roger Wagner Chorale and Igor Stravinsky with Igor Stravinsky...