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Flagstad had returned to Norway and her quisling husband after the occupation. The Norwegian Legation in Washington had refused to approve her return, but she went anyway, using her Norwegian passport, and traveling by way of Portugal, Spain and Berlin. She had never sung for the Germans, nor for the quislings. Her only wartime concerts were in neutral Sweden and Switzerland. Her husband died last year in a hospital while awaiting trial for collaboration. The Norwegian Government had no legal charges against her, and coldly gave her a passport. Norwegians felt a decided chill toward their great singer, who during...
...first piece to be sung publicly by the choir will be "Come, Thou Lovely Hour of Dying," Bach's one hundred sixty-first cantata. Geraldine Viti, formerly an alto with the San Francisco Opera Company, will journey up from New York City to do sole work in Saturday's concert along with George A. Maran...
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin (soloists, orchestra and chorus of the Moscow State Theater; Disc, two albums, 34 sides). Recorded in Russia, sung in near-hysterical Russian style. Performance: good...
...still make up in personality for what he lacks in voice, but a whole evening of Chevalier is a bit too much. He has a few good new turns, though, and they are given the works. The best of the old ones - Louise and Valentine - need only to be sung...
...range and power. The climax of the company's program was a p'i-p'a solo, The Downfall of Chu, describing in great scalding floods of sound the gathering of armies, a wild battle, the grief and suicide. P'i-p'a Soloist Sung Yue-tuh took five curtain calls...