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  AllRefer.com - Rudolf Bing (Music: History, Composers, And Performers, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Rudolf Bing, Music: History, Composers, And Performers, Biographies
Naturalized a British subject in 1946, he was general manager of the Glyndebourne operatic festivals (1934–49) and artistic manager of the Edinburgh International Festival (1947–49).
Bing was knighted in 1971 and retired the following year.
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 Rudolf Serkin biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The family moved to Vienna when Rudolf was nine, where he studied piano with Richard Robert and composition with Joseph Marx.
Rudolf took a post at the Curtis Institute of Music, and they settled in Guilford, Vermont.
Rudolf and Adolf founded the Marlboro Music Festival, and Rudolf made many solo recordings with Columbia in the 1940s.
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 Rudolf Belling biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
At the very beginning of the 20th century Rudolf Belling?s name was something like a battlecry.
Rudolf Belling amplified: a sculpture should show only good views.And so he became an opponent to one of the German head scientists of art in Berlin, Adolf von Hildebrandt, who, in his book, ?The problem of Form in Sculpture?
In 1935 Rudolf Belling stayed for eight months in New York, where he had an exhibition in the Weyhe Gallery with his most important works from the Modern Classic Period.
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 CNN - Metropolitan Opera's Rudolf Bing dies at 95 - Sept. 3, 1997
Bing was credited with ushering the Met into the modern era during his tenure from 1950 to 1972, including breaking the company's racial barrier by bringing Leontyne Price in 1953 and Marian Anderson in 1955.
The acerbic Bing clashed frequently with critics and performers, including world famous conductor Georg Szell and star soprano Maria Callas, who he fired in 1958 when she refused to sing the roles in the sequence he assigned her.
Someone once told Bing his job was the third most difficult after president of the United States and mayor of New York.
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 Bing, Rudolf on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
RUDOLF BING, `STAR' OF THE MET, DIES AT 95
Lady Bing and the law: at stake is Sir Rudolf.
RUDOLF BING, `STAR' OF THE MET, DIES AT 95.(News/National/International)
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Rudolf I, or Rudolf of Hapsburg (roo´dolf) (KEY), 1218-91, German king (1273-91), first king of the Hapsburg dynasty.
Rudolf II, 1552-1612, Holy Roman emperor (1576-1612), king of Bohemia (1575-1611) and of Hungary (1572-1608), son and successor of Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian II....
He taught philosophy at the Univ. of Vienna (1926-31) and at the German Univ. in Prague...
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 Bing, Sir Rudolf
Sir Rudolf Bing - Sir Rudolf Bing former general manager of the Metropolitan Opera Bing, who ran the Met from 1950 to...
Rudolf Bing - Bing, Rudolf, 1902–97, Austrian operatic manager.
Sir Rudolf Bing - Sir Rudolf Bing opera impresario Born: 1/9/1902 Birthplace: Vienna, Austria Famous for his acerbic...
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 PlaybillArts: Features: Nobility of Spirit
Anderson was, of course, the first African-American to sing a role in a Metropolitan Opera performance, but her engagement by general manager Rudolf Bing was no act of mere tokenism.
After Rudolf Bing had become general manager in 1950, he hired a fl dancer, Janet Collins, as a prima ballerina with the Met.
Rudolf Bing claimed that the idea of inviting Marian Anderson to make her Met debut came by an accident of fate.
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 Johan Rudolf Thorbecke biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Johan Rudolf Thorbecke (January 14, 1798 - June 4, 1872) was one of the most important Dutch politicians.
In 1848, he virtually singlehandedly drafted the revision of the Dutch constitution, giving fewer powers to the king, and more to the parliament.
He would never fully recover, and he died at home in The Hague.
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 Bing, Rudolf --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
The most successful entertainer in the early years of radio and talking motion pictures was the U.S. singer, actor, and songwriter Bing Crosby.
The German-born physicist Rudolf Mössbauer was the corecipient of the Nobel prize for physics in 1961.
Austrian-born U.S. pianist Rudolf Serkin was a keyboard virtuoso renowned for his intensity, superb technique, and unsentimental interpretations, both as a soloist and as a chamber musician.
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 Rudolf Hilferding biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Rudolf Hilferding (1877 - 1941) was a Marxist economist and a popularizer of the "economic" reading of Karl Marx.
A leading Marxist theorist of his day, identified with the "Austro-Marxian" group.
Hilferding was exiled to France in the 1930s and then arrested by the Nazis on Vichy soil in 1940.
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 Marian Anderson at the Met: Marian at the Met   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Marian had been asked this question before, but never by such a prominent man in the field: this time, it was asked by Rudolf Bing, the General Manager of The Metropolitan Opera.
Bing did not set out to make Met history when he took its helm in 1950; he was interested in maintaining the artistic integrity of the famed opera house above all else.
She knew that the part of Ulrica was very challenging, extending all the way up to a high A, which was no longer as comfortable in Marian's voice as it once was.
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 Rudolf Jung biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Rudolf Jung (April 16, 1882 - December 11, 1945) was an instrumental force and agitator of Austrian National Socialism and, later on, became a member of the daughter party German Nazi Party.
Rudolf Jung was born in Plasy and was a native of Jihlava, a town fractured by national antagonisms.
The German Dictatorship, The Origins, Structure, and Effects of National Socialism, Karl Dietrich Bracher, trans.
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 Bing, Sir Rudolf Franz Joseph --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Bing, Sir Rudolf Franz Joseph --  Encyclopædia Britannica
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 DVD VIDEO Festivals of Music / Farrell / Russian Singers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Apparently impresario Sol Hurok came up with the idea but Rudolf Bing, general manager of the Met, and RCA Victor had much influence in the project.
Bing didn't want Renata Tebaldi (in her American TV debut) to sing music from La traviata as she was going to make her first Met performance in that opera the following season.
Bing also didn't want Roberta Peters, then a sensation at the Met, to sing anything "too strenuous" as she was going to sing her first Lucia at the Met two days later.
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 Rudolf Bing
Maria Callas and Rudolf Bing / Clark Gable (filmed interview)
--Rudolf Bing (Patron of the Arts from the Metropolitan) - explains "Tosca" --Maria Callas & Rudolf Bing - "Tosca" (huge operatic production number, Maria's television debut) --Dick Shawn (comedian, Civil War...
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 eBay - Book: A Knight at the Opera (ISBN: 0399126538)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
A Knight at the Opera by Rudolf Bing (1981)
A Knight at the Opera (Sir Rudolf Bing) SC GC 
A Knight at the Opera by Rudolf, Sir, Bing 
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 Sir Rudolf Bing
Bing, who ran the Met from 1950 to 1972, revolutionized the opera house by hiring African Americans Leontyne Price and Marian Anderson, as well as some of the world's most highly regarded directors and decorators.
RUDOLF BING: THE MAN WHO RESHAPED AN ART FORM (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
FORMER MET OPERA DIRECTOR BING DIES (The Columbian)
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 Opera Caravan,Adventures of the Metropolitan on Tour 1883 - 1956, with a foreword by Rudolf Bing, layout of ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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 Powell's Books - Sign-Off for the Old Met: The Metropolitan Opera Broadcasts, 1950-1966 by Paul Jackson
The second of two volumes chronicling in detail the Saturday afternoon radio broadcasts that have brought performances from one of the world's great opera companies to million of listeners since 1931.
This long-awaited second volume of Paul Jackson's popular chronicle of the Metropolitan Opera Broadcasts covers the period from the beginning of the Rudolf Bing era to the destruction of the old Met and the move to its present home at Lincoln Center.
Jackson looks at 200 broadcasts featuring artists led by a host of great conductors including Reiner, Mitropoulos, and Solti.
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