Word: wente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Watching the performance from the audience, Tenor Robert Nagy guessed what had happened, hurried backstage and climbed into Carelli's discarded Don Curzio costume. After that, the performance went off without a hitch, despite the fact that Carelli had never sung Basilio at the Met (he had recorded it in Vienna). The audience failed to notice the switch, but Conductor Erich Leinsdorf was shaken. "You should have seen his face," said Tenor Carelli afterward. "He nearly fell off his chair...
...Orchestra of America, founded two years ago to perform nothing but American music, presented the world premiere of Robert Kurka's Concerto for Marimba. Composer Kurka, Chicago-born son of Czech parents, went to work on his 22-minute concerto in 1956 at the suggestion of Marimbist Vida Chenoweth. completed the piece a year before his death of leukemia in 1957 at 35. Last week's performance, conducted by Richard Korn, featured Marimbist Chenoweth as soloist. A small woman (5 ft. 2 in.), she seemed dwarfed by her instrument-a 6-ft. tablelike frame supporting a graduated series...
...major reason for the Canadiens' long lead in the N.H.L. Said Plante: "When I first put on the mask, the boys all told me I would scare the women. They wouldn't come to see the games any more. I'll tell you something: if I went on the way I was going, pretty soon my face would look worse than the mask...
...until Iowa's Evashevski adopted the system in 1956 and went on to win two Big Ten championships and two Rose Bowl games in three seasons did the winged T become famous. Impressed, L.S.U.'s Dietzel last year adopted the attack, won ten straight, and the national championship...
...Faith." The meeting between Kirby and Sonnabend went well enough. Kirby offered Sonnabend a seat on Alleghany's nine-man board; Sonnabend said he would accept. But hardly had the two parted when the deal exploded. Angry telegrams flew back and forth, and words began to fly about a proxy fight for control of Alleghany at the annual meeting next...