Word: melchior
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan police court, the Metropolitan Opera's Lauritz Melchior helped to win dismissal of a complaint against the Korn Kobblers, a band of zany musicians. The police charge: the band had been riding along Broadway, making "unnecessary noise" with instruments that included "a pipe, a washboard and something that looked like an inverted spittoon." Testified Melchior: some musicians, like Wagner, are simply ahead of their time. He assured the judge that to his sensitive ear, the Korn Kobblers were "expressing themselves in true American folk music...
...Rock Park, Colo., Met Tenor Lauritz Melchior got full-dress honors from 250 nudists in convention nearby. To hear him sing, they put their clothes...
Carnegie Hall (Sun. 7:30 p.m., ABC). Guest soloist: Lauritz Melchior...
...Symphony (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). Featuring Lauritz Melchior...
...more of a surprise to Manhattan critics. Since Canadian-born Edward Johnson announced his retirement in 1950, they had been murmuring such names as Lawrence Tibbett, Lauritz Melchior, even Billy Rose as his successor. The New York Times's highbrow Olin Downes suggested that some people would consider it "time an American were appointed to head America's greatest operatic institution." The nobrow Daily News fired off an editorial: "Fair Shake for American Talent...