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...with Manhattan's Met because it refused to engage him for her Tristans and Götterdämmerungs (TIME, Jan. 29). At the San Francisco and Chicago Operas she got her way, and McArthur was soon making himself a place among leading U. S. Wagnerian conductors. Today, Conductor McArthur gives all the credit for his success to Soprano Flagstad. Says she: "I wouldn't do this if I didn't think Edwin could deliver the goods...
...Ouida Rathbone was at it again. So was the weather. It poured. But that did not stop 54 guests, representing most of Hollywood's international elite, from streaming into the plush-conditioned Rathbone mansion. Occasion was a party in honor of Polish:born Pianist Artur Rubinstein. London-born Conductor Leopold Stokowski, and Poland...
Malcolin H. Holmes '28, director of the Pierian Sodality of 1808 and conductor of the Radcliffe and Wellesley orchestras, will direct the Lowell House Musical Society in its annual opera, which this year will be "Acis and Galatea" by Handel, John J. Brainard '40, president of the society, announced yesterday...
First, massive Tenor Lauritz Melchior publicly denounced Leinsdorf's wayward tempos and lack of experience, found him "not yet ready to be senior conductor of the finest department of the greatest opera house in the world." Next, famed Diva Kirsten Flagstad, who was staying away from the opera house with grippe, hinted to friends that she might not go back unless Conductor Leinsdorf was replaced. It was no secret to the Manhattan music world that Diva Flagstad was backing a favorite young maestro of her own: U. S.-born Conductor Edwin McArthur, who had been conducting all her performances...
When it was announced, after all this fuss & feathers, that both Conductor Leinsdorf and Tenor Melchior would perform last week in Gotterdammerung, operagoers jammed the Metropolitan to see the fun. Tenor Melchior was so nervous that he got his eagle-winged Norse warrior's helmet on backwards, but he sang as though he was out to bust his buttons. At the end of the act the audience clapped coldly for Tenor Melchior, gave Conductor Leinsdorf an ovation...