The Recluses
Talk story about a visit to the Metropolitan Museum's elegant new Chinese galleries. The galleries, which were financed by the Dillon Fund, are wrapped around 3 sides of the new Astor Court, a...
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Talk story about a chat with Jiri Kylian, director and choreographer of the Netherlands Dance Theatre which paid a brief visit to the Metropolitan Opera recently. Writer spoke with him in the...
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Talk story about a party that the Bronx Zoo gave on July 14, at dusk, an hour after it had closed for the day. The festivities began at Wild Asia Plaza. Dr. William Conway, the general director of the...
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Talk story about a chat with Dr. Thomas Dailey, a mountain-climbing surgeon who lives in Manhattan and is assembling a medical kit for a 2 1/2 week trek through the Tibetan plateau in China. Their...
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Talk. Interview with George Costakis, a 69-year-old Greek, whose collection of Russian art is being exhibited at the Guggenehim Museum. The show is called "Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia" & is an...
View ArticleReagan Genealogy
Talk story about Pres. Ronald Reagan's genealogy. Writer looked into the subject with the help of Dr. Hugh Peskett, the Senior Genealogist of "Debrett's Peerage," and reports that our chief executive...
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Talk story about watching two rehearsalsNthe second time a dress rehearsalNof a new production of Carl Maria von Weber's opera "Der Freischutz," at the City Opera.See the rest of the story at...
View ArticleMamluks
Talk story about a Metropolitan Museum exhibition of Mamluk art. The Mamluks were a remarkable military aristocracy of slaves and former slaves who ruled an enormous chunk of the Middle East in the...
View ArticleShort, Loud, and Fast
Talk story about a free concert for children at Carnegie Hall, performed by the American Symphony Orchestra. The concert was one of six identical one-hour programs, which have been designed to...
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Comment about Northville, Michigan, as told by a friend who spent Christmas there visiting relatives. It is a suburban community fifteen miles west of Detroit, which has suddenly found itself in the...
View ArticleTelecast
Talk story about televising an opera during a performance. It was the Metropolitan Opera's new production of Puccini's "La Boheme," seen by an audience of about twenty million. The telecast was sent...
View ArticleRockefeller Wing
Talk story about the new Michael C. Rockefeller Wing at the Metropolitan Museum, which writer visited last week. It is a 42,000-square-foot addition to the south side of the museum, which is filled...
View ArticleTown Meeting
Talk story about attending a town meeting in Cornwall a rural village (pop. 993) in Addison County, Vermont, to hear the reading of an Article which requested the President of the U.S. to propose to...
View ArticleTHe Northville Ducks
Talk story about the Ford Motor Company plant in Northville, Michigan, which Ford had closed, supposedly for good, late last year. On St. Patrick's Day this year, Ford announced the reopening of the...
View ArticleThe Joyce
Talk story about the Joyce, a 474-seat dance theatre which opened last week with a program of short works by several companies that will use it. The medium-sized dance facility occupies the brick shell...
View ArticleYves Montand
Talk story about an interview with Yves Montand, film star, political activist, and singer. He paid a brief visit to New York last week to check on arrangements for his forthcoming one-man show at the...
View ArticleHonors
Talk story about a weekend trip to Washington for the Kennedy Center Honors, a movable feast of parties, testimonials and live entertainment which celebrates the careers of five distinguished Americans...
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Talk-Comment about watching preparations at the Metropolitan Museum for the exhibition entitled "The Vatican Collections: The Papacy and Art". This is an assortment of 237 sculptures, paintings,...
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Talk story about "Jukebox Saturday Night," a nostalgic look at pop music of the thirties and forties, which WNET taped before 750 invited guests. It will be telecast in March. Writer went to the Grand...
View ArticleFestival
Talk story about this year's Bayreuth Festival in Germany, at the Festspielhaus, the theatre that Richard Wagner built for the performance of his operatic works. It was the premiere of a...
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