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...place of Wagnerian and other German music in the world today will be discussed by Erich Leinsdorf, leading Wagnerian conductor, over the Crimson Network at 4 o'clock today. Leinsdorf, who is in Boston to lead three of the Metropolitan's German productions this week, will also describe several of the works of the great 19th century master, including the famous "Ring" cycle...
...locks of the famed Seven Sutherland Sisters, was a stolid princess of whom Debussy would never have said, as he did of Mary Garden, that hers was "the gentle voice I had been hearing within me, faltering in its tenderness. . . ." The Metropolitan orchestra, noodling along under Wagnerite Erich Leinsdorf, only occasionally set forth Debussy's score in its full glow. But Tenor Cathelat, a good actor and a good manager of a middling voice, captivated New York's Debussyites - who were out in full cry - and earned critical notices which any operatic censor would be glad to pass...
First, massive Tenor Lauritz Melchior publicly denounced Leinsdorf's wayward tempos and lack of experience, found him "not yet ready to be senior conductor of the finest department of the greatest opera house in the world." Next, famed Diva Kirsten Flagstad, who was staying away from the opera house with grippe, hinted to friends that she might not go back unless Conductor Leinsdorf was replaced. It was no secret to the Manhattan music world that Diva Flagstad was backing a favorite young maestro of her own: U. S.-born Conductor Edwin McArthur, who had been conducting all her performances...
...There are some old boats in the company," hissed he, ". . . who, because they have exalted egos since they have no competition for their roles, would like to be dictators of the Metropolitan. The operatic art and this institution are greater than these, and will be here, along with Mr. Leinsdorf, long after they are gone. . . . He will be so acclaimed in a few years that they won't want to remember that they opposed him. . . . Opera singers," said disgusted ex-Opera Singer Johnson, "are children...
When it was announced, after all this fuss & feathers, that both Conductor Leinsdorf and Tenor Melchior would perform last week in Gotterdammerung, operagoers jammed the Metropolitan to see the fun. Tenor Melchior was so nervous that he got his eagle-winged Norse warrior's helmet on backwards, but he sang as though he was out to bust his buttons. At the end of the act the audience clapped coldly for Tenor Melchior, gave Conductor Leinsdorf an ovation...