Word: metropolitane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just one of Camden's harps will be plucked by a man. Black-haired, excitable, French-born Carlos Salzedo, 60, is the maestro of Camden's harp school. Arturo Toscanini wanted him as first harpist in his Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, and imported him to the U.S. in 1909. Salzedo is now a concert harpist, who turns pedagogue in the summer colony which he founded fifteen years ago to fill the demand for symphony orchestra harpists...
...Wall Street last week, the Communist Daily Worker was in hot demand. So was pinko PM, which jumped its press run from 175,000 to 475,000. The pro-labor Post and its outpost, the Bronx Home News, had shut up shop; twelve other metropolitan dailies carried on with comparatively minuscule printings-of cut-down issues that were practically devoid of advertising...
Mussorgsky: Boris Godunoff (Ezio Pinza and the Metropolitan Opera orchestra and chorus, Emil Cooper conducting; Columbia, 10 sides). Most listeners will probably prefer Kipnis' fine Russian version (TIME, June 4) to Pinza's Italian. Performance: good. Recording: good...
Stocky Horace H. F. (for Howard Furness) Jayne learned to speak Chinese 21 years ago, as an archeologist for Harvard's Fogg Museum. Last week the vice director of the Metropolitan Museum was boning up again, this time to use the language on its home grounds. He is off soon to China to advise the Chinese on preserving their age-old art treasures...
When the long-awaited news finally arrived, it was a big letdown. Sergei Prokofieff's monumental opera, War and Peace (promised by Stalin to the Metropolitan Opera after a Soviet premiere) had a concert run-through last week at the Moscow Conservatory. An audience of professional musicians, squirming through the sceneryless nine scenes, vigorously applauded the classic melodies, found the unwieldy Tolstoyan libretto tough going and concluded that the opera was far from finished...