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In the Black. During the war the 64-year-old Metropolitan had become the world's leading opera house by default. It would have to earn the honor now, with European houses back in the running. Financially, the Met had never been in better shape. It was even a...
After 20 years of handling musicians, Charles O'Connell had had enough of his job. As RCA Victor's musical director, "I was solely responsible for virtually every Red Seal record made in America" from 1930 to 1944. He had "played ping-pong most of the night with...
Lily Pons fares no better: "The singing of a coloratura is a cross between cackle and a whistle, and performers on the vocal high wire and trapeze are utterly devoid of musical interest to me." O'Connell attacks Lily ("The Pons That Depresses") and husband André Kostelanetz with...
Nonetheless, the picture has a certain documentary interest. In it, posterity may see how many of today's most prominent musicians-some good, some not so good -look and act at close range, under weirdly confused, commercial circumstances. These artists include Damrosch, Heifetz, Pinza, Pons, Rodzinski, Rubinstein, Stokowski.
The Telephone Hour (Mon. 9 p.m., NBC). Guest: Lily Pons.