Word: metropolitane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tenor James Melton, refusing to be licked by the Big Snow (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), shoveled a clearing on his Westport (Conn.) farm and helicopter-hopped to work at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House...
...London of Kansas, in Manhattan for a visit, dropped in at the opera, and was forbidden to enter the Metropolitan Opera Club for a snack at intermission: he was not wearing tails. Though his host was the club's president, Landon reported later, "nothing . . . would change the mind of the man at the door." Observed the onetime candidate for President of the U.S.: "It's not the first time I was barred from a place...
...created in the 15th Century's peculiar climate has stood through all kinds of historical weather. Today huge, and sometimes forbidding, art museums hang the treasures of the Renaissance on their walls, there to be seen by several million Americans who each year visit Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum and the National Gallery in Washington. Thousands of Christmas cards, crisscrossing in the mail, carry reproductions of the 15th Century masterpieces, and an infinite variety of imitations. In these ways the great religious art of the past has become gifts to mankind, reopened by each succeeding generation...
...Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Verdi's Il Trovatore, with Cloe Elmo, Stella Roman, Jussi Bjoerling, Leonard Warren...
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Love Duet (Helen Traubel, soprano; Torsten Ralf, tenor; Herta Glaz, contralto, with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Fritz Busch conducting; Columbia, 4 sides). Traubel & Ralf take the famed love duet faster than Flagstad and Melchior. The result is surprisingly warmer, and the orchestral setting is fuller. Recording: good...