Word: hoffmann
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Producer-director Ted Hoffmann's handling of the cameras was disappointing, compared with Ray Wilding-White's fine job last summer. We got only frontal views of portions of the chorus or rear views of Schmidt almost exclusively. Now this is precisely what we can see in any concert hall. What TV alone can do (and should have done) is to include plenty of side-view shots of the conductor, especially close-ups. Few things are more fascinating to watch than the face of a top-notch conductor at work...
...taken a secondary role in analyses of the President's decision to run or not to run. For if the President's 1952 decision is any guide, his answer this week may well rest almost entirely on his own personal desire to mould this country's foreign policy. Paul Hoffmann, for instance, has reported that when he went to Europe in 1952 to persuade Eisenhower to contest the Republican nomination, the only argument that held any weight with the General was the notion that he, and he alone, could make great, beneficial contributions to the cause of world peace. This...
...included Pianist Artur Rubinstein, Violinist Isaac Stern, Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, and such vocalists as Marian Anderson, Renata Tebaldi, Zinka Milanov, Risë Stevens, Blanche Thebom, Roberta Peters, Mildred Miller. Jan Peerce, Jussi Bjoerling, Leonard Warren. What they performed was aimed at the millions-arias from Pagliacci, The Tales of Hoffmann, Tosca, Carmen, a Chopin Polonaise, a movement from the Mendelssohn violin concerto. It was seen or heard by an estimated 23 million people...
...Democrats (an offshoot of Konrad Adenauer's West German C.D.U.) rolled up 25.4% of the vote. The Social Democrats took a beating (14.3% of the vote), trailing far behind the supernationalist right-wing Democrats (24.2%), under ex-Nazi Heinrich Schneider. The big surprise was that tubby little "Jojo" Hoffmann, the Francophile ex-Premier, cornered a solid 21.8% (and 13 seats in Parliament) for his Christian People's Party. Hoffmann's supporters, who favor continued economic collaboration between the Saar and France, cannily reminded middle-class Saarlanders that West German taxes might make a bigger hole in their...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Tales of Hoffmann, with Tucker, Peters, Stevens, Amara...