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Saturday afternoons at the old Met : the Metropolitan Opera broadcasts, 1931-1950

Author: Paul Jackson
Publisher: Portland, Or. : Amadeus Press, ©1992.
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Jackson, Paul, 1927-
Saturday afternoons at the old Met.
Portland, Or. : Amadeus Press, c1992
(OCoLC)639812303
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Paul Jackson
ISBN: 0931340489 9780931340482
OCLC Number: 24372862
Description: xvi, 569 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Contents: I: The Gatti years --
Convincing Gatti --
The money factor --
1931-32: on the air --
1932-33: money troubles --
1933-34: deities, premieres, and farewells --
1934-35: a mighty quartet and a norse goddess --
Coda: exit Gatti --
II: The Johnson era --
1935-36: Wagner and a coloratura soprano --
1936-37: Italian and French favorites; a spring bouquet --
1936-40: the German wing --
1937-40: the Italian wing --
1939-40: new repertory --
Interlude: mortgage and marriage --
1940-43: comic relief --
1940-42: Italian lyricism and French tang --
1940-41: Auf Wiedersehen --
1941-44: Wagner while at war --
1941-44: allies--France sustained by Britain --
1941-50: Mozart renascence --
Intermission --
1942-45: The Italian wing while at war --
Coda: Vale --
1942-42: maestros and masterworks --
1945-46: postwar stasis --
1946-48: postwar premieres --
1946-48: new artists --
1948-49: an upward curve --
1949-50: curtain for Johnson --
Coda: reckoning.
Responsibility: by Paul Jackson.

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