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...often what determines whether you'll go back. By 1963 more than 1 billion hamburgers had been sold, a statistic that was displayed on a neon sign in front of each restaurant. That same year, the 500th McDonald's restaurant opened and the famous clown, Ronald McDonald, made his debut. He soon became known to children throughout the country, and kids were critical in determining where the family ate. According to John Mariani in his remarkable book America Eats Out, "Within six years of airing his first national TV ad in 1965, the Ronald McDonald clown character was familiar...
...satisfying it is to hear a world-class orchestra perform without any pretensions. Indeed, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra exhibited a restraint in their Boston debut that was crucial to the success of the performance. The orchestra is touring the United States as an official Cultural Ambassador of the Sydney, Australia 2000 Olympic Arts Festival. The November 13 performance at Symphony Hall was also a part of BankBoston's annual Celebrity Series. This year also marks the 10th anniversary of the orchestra's 1988 American debut in Carnegie Hall. Led by Dutch conductor Edo de Waart, the orchestra makes its first...
...finally, this is soprano Dominique Labelle's debut in the lead role of Violetta Valery and her second performance with the Boston Lyric (she debuted with last season's Lucia de Lamermoor...
Most of the opera, however, belonged to soprano Labelle, completely entrancing in the title role of Violetta Valery. After making her debut last year in BLO's Lucia de Lammermoor Labelle was named The Boston Globe 1997 Musician of the Year, and with good reason. Her vocal and stylistic range is almost unfathomable: in the course of roughly 10 minutes at the end of the first act, she goes from airy coquettish high notes to the wistful, delicate "Goodbyes" to the passionate lament of the "misterioso" theme that haunts the entire opera. She pulls off coloratura singing--that ornamented style...
...numbering, it is still regarded as the earliest of the five mature concertos because his Piano Concerto No. 1, composed at the age of 13 was promoted by his father as the work of an infant prodigy. No. 2 was also the one performed at Beethoven's piano debut on March 29, 1795 in Vienna. Another unique aspect is the size of the orchestra required for a concerto. With the absence of timpani and brass, the orchestra is small indeed. The effect is a composition more in the spirit of the single-emphasis Mozart concerto, even though there are frequent...