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Opera" Continued sound more profane than they actually are. The impresario-conductor insists privately that these eruptions are just so much theater, a bit of acting that people expect of him. There is the nature-loving Bomhard who has been seen restoring baby birds to the nest. There is Bomhard the cosmopolite, who moves easily in high society, kissing hands and spreading continental charm among dowagers and debutantes. There is the Bomhard of white tie and tails, bowing in the spotlight at the triumphant close of yet another "Tra-viata" or of a successful novelty like "Jenufa," which was surprisingly popular with Louisville audiences.

There is also the Bomhard of midnight work details, when he wears a paint-stained T-shirt and droopy slacks, and mops blue paint on a backdrop, perhaps for or maybe for the Queen of the Night scenes in "The Magic Flute." For good measure there is the Bomhard who enchants large audiences with chatty backstage gossip at Thursday morning sessions prior to each KOA opening night. This is Bomhard the showman, a contrast to the solitary Bomhard, sitting on the grass in his own garden working out some problem in stagecraft in silent concentration. This protean music maker was born 68 years ago in Berlin, Germany, into the family of Ernest von Bomhard, an industrial engineer, and his wife, Johanna, both of whom were musical. A brother of the senior Bomhard was a tenor who sang in light opera and operetta. ThERE must have been in the family some reservations about music as a proper career for a young man, however.

Moritz von Bomhard earned a degree in law from the University of Leipzig, Germany, at about the same time he went to the Leipzig Conservatory of Music, where he got a diploma. Nevertheless there was music and song in the Von Bomhard home, and there was a playhouse on the lawn in which puppet shows and pantomimes nourished the stage ambitions of the son of the house. "It must have been a kind of golden childhood for Moritz and his sisters in those years before the first World War," Charme Bomhard, his wife, said recently. "But that belongs to the European part of his life, which he almost never discusses unless we have visitors from Germany. His two nieces were here last summer and they all talked German so $350 $500 I i 11 $850' $5000 $1000 $1500 4375 $1000 above available in various price ranges depending on center diamond.

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