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...long wanted to bring Richard Strauss's Salome back to its boards. But since its last performance five years ago, with George Szell in the pit, and Soprano Lily D janel swirling Salome's seven veils, the Met had been unable to get the right conductor-singer team together to do it again, and do it well. And with New York's upstart City Opera Company getting bravos for its lively, scaled-down production (TIME, Dec. 13), the Met knew that if it revived Salome at all, it would have to be mighty good...
...Edward Johnson* thought he had found the right singer: magenta-mopped Bulgarian Soprano Ljuba Welitsch, of the Vienna State Opera. Last spring, when pudgy little Fritz Reiner left the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in a huff, Johnson knew he could get the right conductor, too. Even 84-year-old Composer Strauss agreed with that. From Montreux, Switzerland, he wrote to Reiner, who had first conducted Salome under his stern gaze in Dresden 33 years ago: "That is good news. There are plenty of others who can do Brahms and Bruckner. Opera needs men like...
...they will. There can be no substitute for a creator, a Wagner, a Strauss--but we have Rubenstein, and Horowitz and Casadesus and scores of others. We can do without Herr Gieseking and all the others who prosperred in the slaughter house. Donald M. Blinken...
Smart Director Laszlo Halasz has little money to work with. On his last night in Manhattan's City Center, he put on Richard Strauss's Salome as a dress rehearsal for his Chicago opening. He wasn't worried. Said Director Halasz: "My kids are like soldiers. They wait for their cue, and then when it is time they sing. They know if they don't sing there will be trouble tomorrow...
...Strauss: Thus Spake Zarathustra (Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Artur Rodzinski conducting; Victor, 9 sides). Though Zarathustra hasn't much to say, Conductor Rodzinski doesn't miss a word. Recording: good...