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...pleasantly surprised to see Munch's beautiful painting, The Cry, reproduced on your cover. When Munch died in 1944, he left the majority of his life's work, 1,200 paintings, 3,000 drawings and 12,000 graphic works, to the municipality of Oslo, his native city. All of these works are now a part of the Oslo Municipal Art Collection, and are to be housed in a separate building to be known as the Munch Museum. It is now 16 years since Munch's death, and this museum is hardly started...
During the last 16 years, all of Munch's work has been stored in his last studio awaiting the building of the Munch Museum, and no one, not even scholars or artists, is allowed in to see any of them...
...final insult to Munch, his house was demolished last year because it was considered ugly, whereas Ibsen's study is preserved intact in Oslo's Folkmuseum, and Grieg's house, in Bergen, is a national shrine. The often-quoted ". . . A prophet is not without honor save in his own country"* has never been more appropriate...
...Munch's house was indeed demolished, but his studio in the garden was not. Today it is the center of a small artist village built by the city of Oslo and inhabited by many of Norway's leading artists...
After 11½ years with the prestigious Boston Symphony Orchestra, Music Director Charles Munch, 69, last week announced that he would retire following the 1962 Tanglewood season. Beamed his designated successor, Metropolitan Opera Conductor and Musical Consultant Erich Leinsdorf: "I have always considered the Boston the pinnacle of orchestras-it is very rare wine...