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...happy people Very happy! On opening night Last night the happiness began flowing at the cocktail parts among the fuses and sequins assembled for champagne and benedictine in the trees veritas dining room on the second floor. An early arrival whispered about the festivities to come. "I mean gala gala," while a woman discussed a reunion she just had. "He was walking on the Champs Elysees this summer and we just ran into each other. And now here...
...Kennedy Center Honors gala, just four years old, has emerged as one of the hottest tickets in the capital. The some 2,000 guests who attended this year's event witnessed the presentation of lifetime-achievement awards in the performing arts to an august quintet: Actor Cary Grant, 77, Actress Helen Hayes, 81, Jazzman Count Basie, 75, Choreographer Jerome Bobbins, 63, and Pianist Rudolf Serkin, 78. The gala will be broadcast by CBS on Dec. 26. Said a pleased Hayes, "Us old-timers were like kids who were graduating magna cum laude-we were really sailing above the earth...
...occasion for this glittering gathering of musical talent last week was the 100th anniversary of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The gala concert, televised in Europe (and to be broadcast in the U.S. by PBS on Nov. 4), was followed four days later, on the actual centennial day, with a performance of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 on the Boston Common, led by Music Director Seiji Ozawa, 46, before 40,000 listeners from Brockton to Beacon Hill...
...School has, of course, been able to provide some definite advantages, notably its "big media machine," director Ted Osius says appreciatively. Taking advantage of the occasion to make a "Splashy opeining," the group invited media representatives to a gala dress rehearsal and reception last night and papered the University with two rounds of posters. The first of these probably caught numerous eyes political and otherwise with the mysterious display of a line from the show, demanding. "What Went On In the Back Room--In the Smelly Kitchen of Politics...
...Aragvi Restaurant in the Soviet capital was a pleiad of Russian writers and intellectuals, including Andrei Sakharov, the famed nuclear physicist, Dissident Author Anatoli Marchenko, Novelists Vasili Aksyonov and Vladimir Voinovich, and Critics Lev Kopelev and Raisa Orlova. But when the U.S. publishers got ready to give another such gala at the Moscow book fair this month, they knew the party would have to be smaller...