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...things Mme Flagstad said that she had finally decided to take a chance on going back this April to Europe at war, to Norway, where she hoped to find some place to live quietly for a time with her 20-year-old daughter and stepsons. While her accompanist Edwin McArthur was busy denying to newspapermen rumors that she was retiring this year, Mme Flagstad herself was telling John and his mother that she longed more & more for domesticity, that she might return in the fall, but that there was an excellent chance she would...
Coloradan named Edwin McArthur. Last week in Baltimore, at the head of Washington's National Symphony, Maestro McArthur made his first appearance in the East. Behind him was a record of big-time symphony and opera conducting in Sydney, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago. A mere sprig of 32, he had already conducted more Wagnerian opera than many a veteran, had even been mentioned as a candidate for Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, where no U. S.-born maestro has ever held a job. Baltimore critics liked his version of Wagner, his lacy, intricate French scores by Ravel...
...Denver Congregationalist minister, Edwin McArthur left a job as runner in a Denver bank to go to Manhattan, where the Juilliard Foundation had given him a scholarship to study the piano. To pay his living expenses he played accompaniments in Manhattan vocal studios. Because he was such a good accompanist, famous singers like Richard Crooks, Merle Alcock, Gladys Swarthout, John Charles Thomas hired him for concerts. Says he: "If I couldn't be a musician and a respectable citizen - by that I mean earn my own living - at the same time, I'd give up music...
...McArthur's first big chance came in 1935, when Diva Kirsten Flagstad was looking around for an accompanist. He wrote her a letter, got an audition, was soon touring the world playing at her concerts. Meanwhile he had taken another bee into his bonnet. Between concerts he was hard at work in his hotel rooms studying scores, practicing how to beat time. Two years ago in Sydney, Australia, McArthur persuaded Flagstad to let him try his hand at conducting while she sang. He carried out the job like a veteran, and the Sydney critics gave him top marks. After...
...Shut up. Sit down! Boo!" roared the assembled youth. Chairman Ennes had Mr. McArthur tossed out. Speaker McMichael went...