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...other side of the artistic fence was the Center's board of directors, spearheaded by Morton Baum, New York lawyer and man-about-the-arts. Three years ago the board sacked adventurous Conductor Laszlo Halasz, installed Joseph Rosenstock, who is more tradition-directed. Last year the board fired key opera staffers without Kirstein's knowledge. Last week's last-straw news: the board had ignored Kirstein's plan to have Composer Gian-Carlo Menotti supervise the opera division and renewed Conductor Rosenstock's contract against Kirstein's wishes. Director Kirstein resigned in protest. Said...
...Summer Symphony (Sat. 6:45 p.m., NBC). Laszlo Halasz conducts music of Mozart, Borodin, Rimsky-Korsakov...
Last week, having cast Director Laszlo Halasz adrift, the New York City Opera announced a spring season in the best Halasz tradition. In addition to eleven operas from current repertory, it promised productions of i) Alban Berg's tragic opera, Wozzeck, which no U.S. audience has seen in 21 years, 2) a stage version of Gian-Carlo Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors, and 3) a new adaptation, by Marc Blitzstein, of Kurt Weill's The Three-Penny Opera. Possible hitch: Halasz, who is still fighting his year-end dismissal (TIME, Dec. 31), contends that, under...
...board told Halasz it would honor his contract and pay his $12,000 salary through the 1952-53 season if he resigned. Otherwise, he could sue for his salary. In that case he might get nothing; the board considered that it had a case for breaking his contract, on the ground that he had broken the company's morale...
Hungarian-born Laszlo Halasz, 46, admitted that he is a slave driver:' "I believe in that." And he is often sarcastic ("Sing a B-flat rather than a flat B!"). But he could hardly believe his whole company was against him. Within 24 hours, he gathered 45 testimonial letters from singers, conductors, and musicians. City Opera's topnotch Conductor Jean Morel promptly announced his resignation in protest. Halasz refused to resign, demanded an open hearing. But the board's mind seemed to be made up. Conductor Joseph Rosenstock was named to direct the spring season, opening...