Word: xavier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cluttered and creaky with age. Spectators in the front row run the danger of being skewered by the conductor's baton, and a singer who wants to be heard has to shout down the throat of the tuba. But despite such drawbacks, the audience at Manhattan's Xavier Theater last week saw and heard as fine a revival of Gian-Carlo Menotti's stark Greenwich Village drama. The Saint of Bleecker Street, as the opera is likely to receive. What made the production even more surprising was that not one of the professional performers was paid...
Personal Underground. The Xavier Theater (700 seats) in lower Manhattan is one of two headquarters of a remarkable organization-the Xavier Symphony Society. The society's other headquarters: a Broadway hotel room from which Conductor Vincent La Selva dispatches telephoned entreaties to a kind of personal underground consisting of about 300 musicians. From this list he recruits the orchestra he needs for any of the Xavier Society's free concerts or opera productions. Since the musicians all play for the fun of it, La Selva is never quite sure how much of his orchestra will turn...
...Selva got permission to use the Xavier Theater (attached to the Xavier High School), began by putting on concert programs, then added opera. Since then, the symphony has given 50 concerts, 35 operatic performances (Tosca, Rigoletto, Traviata, Boheme, Bleecker Street...
...Frances Xavier, Mother Cabrini (1850-1917), canonized in 1946, the first and only saint who was a U.S. citizen, was born in Italy...
Standing straight as an old Napoleonic musket. France's iron-eyed Navy Captain Philippe Henri Xavier Antoine de Gaulle, 39, only son of France's iron-willed President, took over command of the convoy ship Le Picard in a ceremony...