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...last high C. Every gesture is rehearsed until it is the performer's second nature. Goldovsky even makes his singers practice with their backs to him so that they will be able to concentrate on their roles without having to keep their eyes trained on his baton. There are eleven singers on the tour, and all of them know more than one of the opera's seven roles, and switch around frequently. The result: a high-spirited romp that made listeners from Baltimore to Wichita forget that Mozart was a classical composer and that opera was supposed...
...Test. In Baton Rouge, asked why he had rowed some 2,000 miles down the Mississippi from Minnesota in an open skiff, Jeweler Matthew M. Bakula, 72, told reporters: "I wanted to show my family I was no sissy...
...jeeps, crossed mountains on muleback, slept on dirt floors and ate with the peasants. No fighting front was too hot to keep them away. Once with Paul at the wheel, the royal jeep took a short cut through a mined road. The Queen picked up her husband's baton of rank, and. waving it over his head in a burst of feminine illogic, vowed to bash his head in if he dared hit so much as a single mine...
Premiered by Ellington (Capitol, 2 EPs). Eight famous songs, including Stardust, Three Little Words, Stormy Weather, which first saw the light of night under the Duke's baton. Fine, swinging performances...
Although the Band has not officially revealed Briggs' appointment, it is known that he will be presented the symbolic ivory baton by student manager Peter Strauss '54 at a special ceremony at 7 p.m. tonight in Sanders Theatre...