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Grimy and tieless, General Manager Rudolf Bing practiced with the heavy gold curtain, nearly clipped a couple of principal singers with a fast curtain at the end of Act I. The show, he panted, would go on that night without scenery if necessary. But before curtain time, the stagehands returned, and the evening's opera, a well-tried Tannhäuser, went smoothly...
...Rudolf Serkin, 51, is a tall, loose-jointed man with heavily calloused hands. Driving his tractor at his farm outside Brattleboro, he could pass for a Vermont farmer. But on the concert stage, he ranks as one of the best pianists in the world. Last week Rudolf Serkin was onstage in Carnegie Hall, playing Beethoven's "Emperor" Concerto, and showing a capacity audience the top of his form...
Despite the stern trials of concert and recording, Rudolf Serkin loves music more than ever, but he misses the old days of chamber music with the Busches, and he has organized a Vermont summer school especially for ensemble playing. It brings him together with other musicians. "Being just a pianist," he says, "is a very lonesome thing...
...Metropolitan, with its huge (3,617) seating capacity and broad stage, is a natural spot for the Ring. Today, says General Manager Rudolf Bing, it would cost as much in time and money to prepare it as five ordinary Verdi or Puccini operas, but would draw crowds for only about ten performances as compared with 30-odd for the Italian favorites. This year the Met is enjoying full houses (at about $19,000 a night) for its Rigoletto and La Boheme, while, even with Soprano Harshaw, performances of Tann-häuser and Walkure find about 10% of the seats...
...charges that condemned Czech Communist Boss Rudolf Slansky and his cohorts (TIME, Dec. 8, 1952) was that they exported "militarily valuable" TV tubes to Britain, thereby "endangering Czechoslovakia's defense potential...