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| Artur Bodanzky, by Herman Mishkin (1871–1948) Beschreibung US-amerikanischer Fotograf Geburts-/Todesdatum 15. Januar 1871 6. Februar 1948 Geburts-/Todesort Minsk New York City Wirkungsdaten 1890 –1932 Wirkungsstätte New York Normdatei : Q4298464 VIAF : 305873238 ISNI : 0000000026250981 ULAN : 500100131 LCCN : n83046541 BIBSYS : 1512647517899 WorldCat creator QS:P170,Q4298464 Identifier : morechaptersofop00kreh ( find matches ) Title : More chapters of opera : being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from 1908 to 1918 Year : 1919 ( 1910s ) Authors : Krehbiel, Henry Edward, 1854-1923 Subjects : Opera Publisher : New York : H. Holt and company Contributing Library : Harold B. Lee Library Digitizing Sponsor : Brigham Young University View Book Page : Book Viewer About This Book : Catalog Entry View All Images : All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: hout a dissenting vote aresolution offered by Count Seebach, director of the RoyalTheater at Dresden, was unanimously adopted which boundthe members of the society to grant no leave of absence toany singer who wished to go to America and not to engageany singer who accepted an American contract, the agree-ment to last for five years. The action, Count Seebach said,had nothing to do with the war, but was only a measure ofself-protection on the part of German theaters. In fact, heprofessed to want it understood as directed against Germanartists rather than American managers. It was intolerable,he said, that German artists after having been trained in theirown country should at the maturity of their powers makethemselves over to American contractors, spend their bestyears abroad, and come back to Germany with an accessionof conceit as well, I suppose, of dollars. Artists shouldtherefore be compelled to chose between America and Ger-many. Frankly he admitted that no injury could result to Text Appearing After Image: Artur BodanzkvConductor at the Metropolitan Opera House AMERICAS ATTITUDE TOWARD GERMANY 379 German influence in America, for Germany no longer hadany influence there and it would be vain to try to winAmericans by civilities and sentimentalities. There had not as yet been the slightest exhibition of hos-tility toward German art in America, and the German sing-ers were as indifferent as was the management of theMetropolitan to the Berlin pronunciamento. Mr. EdwardZiegler, the executive secretary of the Metropolitan Com-pany, declared the action to be purely academic, inasmuchas it did not affect the German singers of the companywhose contracts had not expired while those whose con-tracts had expired would be glad to renew them, since theywould be unable to return to their homes so long as the warlasted. The matter was left to repose on the knees of the gods,and there it still lies. I recall the incident partly to indi-cate how liberal was the American attitude toward theGerman operas a Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.| https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/14596181949/ Source book page: https://archive.org/stream/morechaptersofop00kreh/morechaptersofop00kreh#page/n450/mode/1up| Krehbiel, Henry Edward, 1854-1923| | Datei:Artur Bodanzky, by Herman Mishkin.jpg
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