Word: kolodin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Present. Now the U.S. would have to decide how it felt about her. Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Association nervously sniffed the wind before making up its mind whether to ask its old star back. The New York Sun's critic Irving Kolodin thought it should not. To him, it was all right for Flagstad to hire a hall where the public could buy tickets or stay away; it was something else for her to sing at the Met, where the public buys season tickets months in advance, and has to accept whatever singers the management offers. Added Kolodin...
Snorted the New York Times's critic Olin Downes: "This is a Hollywood concerto. . . . The melodies are ordinary and sentimental in character; the facility of the writing is matched by the mediocrity of the ideas." Quipped the New York Sun's Irving Kolodin: "More corn than gold...
...five: the New York Times's Howard Taubman, the New York Sun's Irving Kolodin, the Cincinnati Enquirer's Frederick Yeiser, the San Francisco Chronicle's Alfred Frankenstein, Good Housekeeping's George Marek...