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...Public School 161 in Manhattan, three-fourths of the students are Hispanic. So the community school board decided to rechristen the school, which bore the name of Fiorello H. LaGuardia. As a three-term mayor, the "Little Flower" championed city dwellers of every race and creed. But no matter; he was Italian, not Hispanic. The board thereupon chose the name of Pedro Albizu Campos, who before his death in 1965 proved his "unselfish devotion," in the board's words, "to the cause of liberation of Puerto Rico from the yoke of American colonialism...
...wasn't any good. Krag "jumped at the chance" to accompany the musical and pretty soon was showing up for every rehearsal, an unheard of thing for an accompanist to do. That led to an offer for the next fall to be associate music director with John Posner for Fiorello!, a Grant-In-Aid production, which led to an offer this spring from the Gilbert and Sullivan board, to be music director of Princess...
...much of the Grant-In-Aid board's reluctance to let Krag handle the musical direction of Fiorello! alone is due to her being a woman is "debatable," says Krag, and she cites her inexperience and the fact that Grant-in-Aid has worked with Posner before as more important factors. "Right now I'm much happier I did it with John. I learned so much from him....Fiorello! really worked. I got on really well with the orchestra and they thought I taught them...
...learn how to sell and regrets she can't whistle like so and puts two fingers in her mouth. "Right now I have to steel myself to get through a rehearsal. I'm not that good with a whole group of people I don't know. With Fiorello I could wait until I knew people better and then teach small groups. But I'm pretty sure of what I can do--it's not going to be bad, that's for sure...
...there was the extensive financial haggling. Eventually, the budget was set at $500, one fifth of which went immediately to orchestration. (The approximate budget set for Loeb mainstage shows this year, considerably lower than that of past years, is $2000. The last Grant-In-Aid production in Agassiz Theater, Fiorello!, was budgeted at about $5500.) Again against all odds, Teeth sold out five of six performances and grossed $1100, making more than 100 per cent net profit...