David Harbin wrote:
>Also, Steidry - I have never heard of him before and wonder what sort of
>conductor he was.
I heard my first live Ring at the old Met, in the Family Circle, where
tickets cost US$2.00, in early 1949, w/ Stiedry conducting. I was
seventeen and blown away by Wagner's music. Maybe I simply didn't know
any better but I enjoyed Stiedry's conducting.
Walter Meyer