Centennial
Talk story about the Metropolitan Opera, which opened its centennial season on Monday night with an unprecedented amount of money in the bank ($23 million) and a 5-hour production of Hector Berlioz's...
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Talk story about Peter Brook's version of Bizet's "Carmen," done as a musical drama called "La Tragedie de Carmen" at the Vivian Beaumont. Choruses and crowd scenes have been dropped, the cast has been...
View ArticleGala
Talk story about Channel 13's "Gala of Stars," the 1984 Salute to public television from the world of classical and popular entertainment. It was taped"live"at Radio City Music Hall and will be...
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“Recording a stage show is essentially an adaptive process,” said Thomas Z. Shepard, looking up at us from a multilevered RCA console, where he was working on the final mix of the new Stephen...
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Talk story about National Public Radio's "Morning Edition," a weekday two-hour news show anchored by Bob Edwards, 37, and produced by Jay Kernis, who also tapes cultural interviews for the show. The...
View ArticleSmall Mischief
Talk story about the exhibit at the Morgan Library called "Small Mischief: Evil Doings and Odd Disasters in Early Children's Books." Writer spoke to Gerald Gottlieb, the curator of Early Children's...
View ArticleRelentless and Absolute
Talk story about gridlock. Writer accompanied Samuel Schwartz, the city's deputy transport commissioner, for traffic operations, on his morning rounds on Dec. 14, to observe how the city had mobilized...
View ArticleMystifier
Talk story about an Henri Rousseau retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art. Writer talked to Carolyn Lanchner, a curator in the museum's department of painting and sculpture, and one of the...
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Talk story about a conference on John F. Kennedy that took place at Hofstra University. It was attended by historians anf former Kennedy staff members, who spent 3 days discussing the late president's...
View ArticleUneven Collection
Talk story about Sotheby's auction of 56 well-publicized paintings&drawings-most of them Impressionist-from the estate of the late Florence Gould, who was the daughter-in-law of Jay Gould, one of...
View ArticleWaltzing
Talk story about the Philharmonic Ball at the Grand Promenade of Avery Fisher Hall, an event that was held to raise funds for the orchestra. It took the form of an elaborate Viennese evening (at $500...
View ArticleSellars at Purchase
Talk story about a visit to SUNY Purchase in Westchester to see a rehearsal of Peter Sellars' production of Handel's "Guilio Cesare in Egitto." Sellars is the 27 yr. old director of the American...
View ArticleThe Tango
Talk story about 3 dance teams from the musical revue "Tango Argentino." The show is roughly historical, tracing the dance from the Buenos Aires slums of the 1880s to 20th-century ballrooms. The format...
View ArticleSecurity
Talk story about the security arrangements for the United Nations' anniversary. Over 50 motorcades shuttled between hotels, missions, and the U.N. without incident, producing only a few traffic jams...
View ArticleThe Mapleson Cylinders
Talk story about turn-of-the-century recordings of the Metropolitan Opera, made on an Edison Home Phongraph by the Met's company librarian, Lionel Mapleson. He began his work on Jan. 16, 1901 &...
View ArticleGeorge Rose
Talk story about actor George Rose, now appearing in "The Mystery of Edwin Drood," a musical version of Charles Dickens' unfinished novel... It is this play-within-a-play that provides the framework...
View ArticleBoulez
Talk story about Pierre Boulez. The New York Philharmonic announces a series of concerts and conversations that will take place early this month at Avery Fisher Hall and several other places to...
View ArticleRestoration
The writer visited Lawrence Goldman, who is the vice-president supervising the 7-month renovation of Carnegie Hall. James Stewart Polshek, the architect who provided a master plan for the project, said...
View ArticleAquarium News
Talk story about visit to New York Aquarium, which raises blue lobsters, and has two thousand-pound beluga whales, Winston and Natasha. They're working on plans for Sea Cliffs --a big new outdoor...
View ArticleHugues Cuenod
A talk story about Hugues Cuenod, 84, the distinguished Swiss tenor... "If you sing a phrase as you would speak it, the music will attach itself naturally to the words," said Cuenod. He is making his...
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