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Another Caruso? Not yet, says Conductor Fritz Busch, who picked Poleri for Forza, but he has many of the attributes. "Poleri sings from where Caruso used to -around the waistline. His voice comes up with depth and timbre. But it's just as important that he's filled with limitless ambition to do the right job, the good job, to get across the exact effect. And he listens to advice. Will he become truly great? He ought to unless he's mishandled during the next two or three years...
...little 600-seat opera house at Glyndebourne (rhymes with fine horn) was almost filled. Conductor Fritz Busch started the overture, and the curtain went up on the first professional British production of the rarely performed Idomeneo. The opera is based on a Greek legend of the King of Crete who is nearly trapped into sacrificing his son to the sea god Poseidon in exchange for his own safety. Though Idomeneo is unwieldy on the stage, members of the orchestra and cast (representing the U.S., England, Sweden, Austria, Switzerland and Australia) put on a first-rate show, glittering with classic fidelity...
Professor Emil Staiger of the University of Zurich will deliver a lecture tonight in German entitled "Conrad Ferdinand Meyer und die symbolistische Poesie." The lecture, under the auspices of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and the Busch-Reisinger Museum, will be given in Room 11, Sever Hall...
...Busch-Reisinger Museum yesterday ended the first of a series of afternoon recorded organ concerts by E. Power Biggs. The program, given from 4 to 4:30 p.m. every day since Monday, featured records of Bach organ selections...
...exhibits also opened recently at Busch-Reisinger. One, a collection of contemporary German art, includes four drawings by Paul Klee. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York lent the other exhibit, a display of wooden religious figures from the Gothic period...