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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...diamond jubilee was a jubilee indeed (in a restrained, Fabian way). Sir Thomas Beecham, who quit the Fabians because they slighted the arts, let bygones be bygones and conducted the overture to Die Meistersinger and the Fantasia from Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet. As the music died away, the blue curtains parted. After a slight (inevitable) delay, the large balding head of Quintus Fabius Maximus' disciple Harold Laski popped through the white backdrop. Laski, peering over the big red carnation in his buttonhole, advanced to the rostrum followed by Prime Minister Attlee, Lord President of the Council Herbert...
Wagner's heavy oil is what makes the wheels of the Met go round. Of the Met's eight most frequently heard operas, four are his-Lohengrin, Tannhäuser, Tristan und Isolde and Die Walküre. From Caruso's debut (1903) until eleven years ago, the Met had a thick Italian accent. Then came the great Norwegian, Kirsten Flagstad, to join the great Dane, Lauritz Melchior-two singers with the bellows and brawn to shout down the batteries of trumpets and trombones that Wagner put to work in the pit. Since Flagstad went home...
...just after her first recital in Manhattan's Town Hall, Traubel sang the Immolation Scene from Göterdämerung with the Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York. She was quickly offered a Metropolitan contract; this time she was ready. In her Met debut as Sieglinde in Die Walküe, Flagstad sang Brünnhilde and Lauritz Melchior Siegmund. Traubel's opulent tones sent critics away raving. Said the New York Times: "The voice is a glorious one." After an Ann Arbor concert, a reviewer put it in good plain Michigan talk: "Miss Traubel hoisted...
...years Traubel and Flagstad divided most of the leading Wagnerian roles. In Die Walküre, Traubel sang a dozen Sieglindes to Flagstad's Brünnhildes. The usually aloof Flagstad finally said to Traubel: "I think it is now time we turn this around and I sing Sieglinde and you sing Brünnhilde." The change never came off. Shortly afterwards Flagstad returned to German-occupied Norway...
...live down here in Texas and our bees are so big we use 'em for primary trainers at Randolph Field. But sting a man four times? Don't let Sam feed you that! They only sting once, in the orthodox manner, and then quietly die...