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...Where's Stravinsky? Critic Thomson's biggest quarrel was over programs. Artists "at the level of fame" of Flagstad, Heifetz, Horowitz and Rubinstein could "do as they please." But, he charged, the programs of artists at a lower level are "censored in a most arbitrary fashion" by the New York concert services (who promptly denied it). "With concert business bigger than ever (by volume)," wrote Thomson, "the concert repertory gets smaller year by year. There are only five piano sonatas by Beethoven that the central offices will accept without a row. No long work by Schumann is considered...
...Metropolitan Opera faced up to losing its greatest soprano. Nearing the end of a brilliant season, after a ten-year absence, Kirsten Flagstad at 55 felt that the strain of rehearsals and acting was just too much. After a London performance next fall of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, she plans to close out her 38-year operatic career to follow the life of the concert stage. Met Manager Rudolf Bing still hoped to change her mind...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Fidelio, with Flagstad, Svanholm, Schoeffler...
...picket unless the offending picture were withdrawn. The theatre owner fell ill with that same disease which has laid low radio and motion pictures and now infects television--he did not wish to offend any one. In recent years, various groups have also been offended by Walter Gieseking, Kirsten Flagstad, the motion picture "Oliver Twist," and many other peoples and works of art. There is hardly anything or anyone that does not offend somebody...
...sang only four times, twice in Sweden, twice in Switzerland. Since then, European and U.S. audiences have heard her more often, found her voice still full of a rich, earth-mother quality that no other living soprano possesses. This week, as a damp-eyed Met audience gave greying Kirsten Flagstad a long ovation, she was back on the stage she calls "my operatic home...