Word: gatti-casazza
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...Friday afternoon and the Metropolitan Opera House was still. In the musty old office which had been Giulio Gatti-Casazza's sat new Manager Herbert Witherspoon, 61, clearing his desk after weeks of planning and budgeting. On Saturday he was to sail for Europe, leaving an announcement of his plans for the world to know on Monday. The last of 279 auditions was over...
...March iS). Witherspoon was to bring in new blood, grant the proper opportunities to young U. S. singers, whose hardships he knew from personal experience. His father, a Buffalo minister, sent him to Yale, where he majored in the glee club. He sang in concerts for 13 years until Gatti-Casazza, then serving his first season in the U. S., decided that he needed an extra bass. Witherspoon sang for eight years at the Met, retired to teach. During the hazardous season which preceded Samuel Insult's collapse, he directed the Chicago Civic Opera...
...weeks musical Manhattan has been saying good-by to Giulio Gatti-Casazza. Praised without end for his 27-year record as manager of the Metropolitan Opera, swamped with good wishes for his old age in Italy, massive old Gatti shied from the demonstrations. Last week he was glad to see his trunks packed at last and sent to the boat...
Mary Moore's manner is consistently naive. When she had her audition with Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza last spring, she was so excited that she sang with a cough drop in her mouth. Then she made a novena to Saint Gabriel and Saint Paul. ("But I haven't said much about that because I don't want people to think I go to church just because I want things.'') She practices in a studio because at home she is afraid of annoying the neighbors. When she makes an exception she closes all the windows, stuffs...
...seemed to have gathered in the wings as a reminder that the Metropolitan owed them its world-wide prestige. In the corridors it was easy to imagine the small erect figure of Otto Hermann Kahn, carnation in buttonhole, a quick shrewd word for everyone. No ghost was big Giulio Gatti-Casazza, for 27 years the Metropolitan's general manager. But Gatti's regime ends next month. Last week his successor was named and a momentous bargain sealed. In a desperate attempt to save its life, the Metropolitan sold its independence. Price: $150,000. The buyer was the Juilliard...