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...given in the U.S. Put on in condensed, hour-long versions by Manhattan's station WOR in cooperation with the Treasury Department (to boost war bond sales), broadcast by a nationwide Mutual network (Thursdays, 8 to 9 p.m. E.W.T.), the series is a brainchild of Alfred Wallenstein, WOR's ebullient, businesslike music director...
Conductor Wallenstein pored over 120 operas, picked what he thought were the most artistic, entertaining, representative. To start the series, he shrewdly selected the best-liked U.S. folk opera: George Gershwin's jazz-flavored saga of Charleston's Catfish Row, Porgy & Bess, now a smash hit in its Manhattan revival. To get the Broadway cast, headed by Anne Brown and Todd Duncan, arrangements had to be made to hold the theater curtain until...
...Wallenstein chose the operas partly because of their typically American stories: a twangy, New Hampshire folk tale, a whimsical romance of small-town spinsters, adventures of school-age moppets caught in a hurricane, a wry story of the rough, shambling California gold-rush days. The King's Henchman, with its olde-English Aethelwold and Aelfrida, is the only .opera definitely not of the U.S. For The Second Hurricane Wallenstein has assembled a troupe of children, for Four Saints the original all-Negro cast...
...music, to canny, brilliant Alfred Wallenstein, musical director of Mutual's Manhattan station WOR, who recognized that for good radio musicianship the distinction between "classic" and "modern" music has ceased to exist...
Newark, N. J.'s Station WOR hired him for a series of Sunday-night half-hours (Mutual network) of purest Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, with an orchestra conducted by WOR's Music Director Alfred Wallenstein. Never before, thought Director Wallenstein, had a single station presented a series of such high calibre...