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...Bing in the Bullseye
...would rather experience a Callas Toscu than an LSD trip. I applaud TIME for daring to like Rudolf Bing and the beautiful new Met [Sept. 23|. It is the latest chic to find the Met somehow appalling or worse, mundane. It is gaudy (so are diamonds). It panders to popular taste-Chagall, really! It is gimmick-run, unexciting, blah, blah, blah. One wonders what could possibly have pleased its critics. But then, who cares...
...Antony and Cleopatra was a disappointment, the new house, this exceptional season, and your delightfully written cover story are not. You have successfully retired the cliche that Bing is a stuffy, humorless, inept Austrian tyrant and given us a wi. ty. dedicated, and exceptionally talented human being...
...delighted with the lively profile of Rudolf Bing. With the exception of one or two semantic twisters, I think it is a first-rate job-definitely ept, ane and ert. Sending Mr. Bing a bottle of Moselle as a preliminary shipboard softener-upper was a touch of genius. Champagne would have been all right for some people, but for Bing a bit gauche and outre. In the words of Talleyrand (almost): He is intolerable, but that is his only fault...
...article on Bing was great, but it didn't make me (or any other contemporary composer) love him any better. He is as much a museum piece as the Establishment he represents. His choice of American composers (Barber, for example) certainly doesn't place him too far out on the limb...