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Cognoscenti complain as cognoscenti will. All is not flawless at the Metropolitan Opera House. There are many weaknesses. Excellent ensembles, a good German wing, equal to pre-War times, a wise choice of novelties to please the epicures???these are pleasant, surely, but then there exists a tendency to quantity production, to wear out the orchestra and singers: there is no French wing to speak of, no chance for the American artist. He makes no excuses, that imperturbable impresario with his thumbs in his armpits. But he knows, and others know, that for such a polyglot community there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ave | 11/1/1926 | See Source »

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