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...Summer Symphony (Sat. 6:45 p.m., NBC). Laszlo Halasz conducts music of Mozart, Borodin, Rimsky-Korsakov...
...long and diligent apprenticeship in murder, conspiracy, intimidation and other arts of Communist politics. Most of his adult life has been spent either in Hungary's jails or in Moscow's schools for sabotage. On Moscow's orders, he framed Cardinal Mindszenty, executed his colleague Laszlo Rajk, helped the Russians to kidnap Majority Leader Bela Kovacs, and forced Premier Ferenc Nagy into exile...
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...
...Laszlo Halasz felt pretty chipper about his New York City Opera Company. His fall season had just wound up in the black after seven weeks in Manhattan and four weeks on the road. Back from Chicago last week, Director Halasz asked to see his board chairman, Manhattan Lawyer Newbold Morris, about plans for the coming spring season. Chairman Morris and the board wanted to see Halasz too, but about a different matter: they gave him his choice of resigning or being fired...
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...