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Soprano Ingrid Bjoner was generally first rate as a shyly aggressive Eva. Bass Karl Doench was appropriately repellent as Beckmesser, the malevolent town clerk whom Wagner created as a caricature of one of his most caustic critics-Viennese Music Critic Eduard Hanslick. The chorus and extras were drilled with spectacular precision, creating at the end of Act II one of the most convincing pillow-throwing, hair-pulling riots a Met Meistersinger has ever seen...
Moscow was reeling under the heaviest American cultural onslaught in its history. Within the space of only a few weeks, Bass Jerome Hines had launched a Russian tour from the stage of the Bolshoi, Igor Stravinsky had returned to his homeland, and George Balanchine had arrived with his New York City Ballet. Then, almost unheralded, the Robert Shaw Chorale turned up last week and outdid them all. At an opening concert at Tchaikovsky Conservatory, the 34-member choral group scored a popular triumph the likes of which Moscow had not seen since 1958, when Van Cliburn took over the town...
...Negro Bass Player Charlie Mingus is a talented, successful and angry man-so angry, in fact, that he planned to leave for an island in the Mediterranean and never return to the U.S. Mingus changed his mind, but the anger remains. It is shared in some degree by many Negro jazz musicians, and its major cause is anti-Negro prejudice in a field that Negroes regard as their own. Its result is the regrettable kind of reverse segregation known as Crow Jim-a feeling that the white man has no civil rights when it comes to jazz...
...first time that a Russian audience had heard an American-born singer in the title role of Boris Godunov. For his passionate and athletic performance -in faultless Russian-of the tragic Czar, enormous (6 ft. 6 in.. 195 Ibs.) Metropolitan Opera Bass Jerome Mines, 40, drew a tumultuous standing ovation and six curtain calls from the opening night crowd at Moscow's Bolshoi Theater. Said the Hollywood-born Hines, modestly trying to sound surprised at the cheers: "How do you think Americans would feel if they saw Yuri Gagarin on the launching pad at Cape Canaveral...
...lady who was the cause of some of Powell's trouble, Doloris Bridges was defeated for the G.O.P. Senate nomination. The winner, by a bare 1,692 votes out of some 100,000 cast, was middle-road Congressman Perkins Bass, 49. At week's end, Doloris demanded a recount. But recounts hardly ever change the results of an election, and old Styles would have known better than ever...