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...Nazis, and the behind-the-stage work to make Hitler chancellor was already in full swing. A group of us who were united in our opposition to the Nazis decided that we should do something about it. We started off with what was called Haus und Hof propaganda: invading the courtyards of apartment houses with guitars and accordions to attract attention, then making speeches while others went from door to door passing out mimeographed sheets with our youthful interpretations of the political situation. This kind of anti-Hitler propaganda was forbidden even under the Papen regime...
...what to expect. In Milan last week 200 plainclothesmen were sprinkled through the audience in famed La Scala opera house, and outside, strong police squads stood ready. There had been hints of trouble. The former chief of staff of the Milanese partisan organization demanded that the performance of Tristan und Isolde be canceled. He objected not to Soprano Flagstad's much-criticized war reputation-but to the fact that the opera would be sung in German...
...that Kirsten Flagstad was a great singer. Some of them had heard her at first with reticence and then with applause in postwar concerts at Cannes, Paris and London. Many more of the same kind of folk were on hand at La Scala when the first notes of Tristan und Isolde sighed from the orchestra...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Bach's Ich Ruf zu Dir, Second Brandenburg Concerto, C Minor Passacaglia and Fugue, Come, Sweet Death; Wagner's love music from Tristan und Isolde. Conductor: Leopold Stokowski...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2-5 p.m., ABC). World premiere of Bernard Rogers' and Norman Corwin's The Warrior, with .Baritone Mack Harrell, Soprano Regina Resnik. Also, Humperdinck's Hansel und Gretel, with Soprano Rise Stevens, Soprano Nadine Connor, Baritone John Brownlee...