• Special Performance: Melchior gives a concert for British soldiers stationed in Germany today.

• Special performance: Melchior performs at Danish King Christian's birthday celebration today, at which Melchior is awarded the Commander Cross of the Dannebrog, one of Denmark's highest honors.

• San Francisco Opera: Tristan und Isolde. William Steinberg. Melchior, Janssen, Alvary, Traubel, Glaz   (part of this performance is BROADCAST)
  

• San Francisco Opera: Walküre. Steinberg. Melchior, Alvary, Janssen, Djanel, Traubel, Harshaw. ACT II is BROADCAST
  

• San Francisco Opera: Tristan und Isolde. Steinberg. Melchior, Janssen, Alvary, Traubel, Harshaw.

• San Francisco Opera [Shrine Auditorium, LA]: Tristan und Isolde See 14 Oct 1945.
  

Los Angeles Times: "[Melchior] proved Hollywood had not harmed him but helped him. He looked far more romantic, his comportment was positively graceful and his voice, while slightly thin on top notes, is resonant as ever." (IM Jones, p. A1).

• San Francisco Opera [Shrine Auditorium, LA]: Walküre. See 9 Oct 1945.
  

Los Angeles Times: "[Melchior] is always the Great Dane, the center of whatever scene he is in and not too subtle about making everyone else aware of him. His Siegmund is assured and easy from long experience." (IM Jones, p. 9)

• Recital: Russ Auditorium, San Diego, California, Edward Rebner at the piano. The billed program begins with Scandinavian songs by Jordan, Henneberg, Henriquez, and Grieg, continues to lieder by Schubert and Strauss, advances to songs featured in Thrill of a Romance and Two Sisters from Boston and finishes out with "Winterstürme" and "Vesti la Giubba." Most of his recitals this season will consist of these same selections.

• RADIO: "Request Performance," ABC. Lauritz Melchior performs a comic duet with Larry Adler.

• RADIO: "Victory Loan Show" ABC, 11:30-12:00 PM. Melchior, Arthur Treacher, Frances Langford, Ronald Colman, Marlin Hurt, etc.

• Concert, El Paso Texas, El Paso Symphony Orchestra, H. Arthur Brown, conductor. Melchior is featured soloist.

• Recital, Chicago, Orchestra Hall: Otto Seyfert conducts.

Chicago Daily Tribune: "There was something for everyone, and to my taste the peaks were...Siegmund's Love Song...the brilliant group of Strauss songs with a matchless performance of "Heimliche Aufforderung," and the delicate loveliness of the Swedish song, "Flyg mina Tankar," always a Melchior triumph on any recital program....In Canio's Lament...he touched his eyes with a kerchief, a gesture that in a less noble performance might have been one of bathos." (Cassidy, p. 28).

• Special Appearance: Benefit, Police Athletic League, Madison Square Garden. Mayor LaGuardia conducts, and Lauritz Melchior, dressed as a fireman, sings, Frank Loesser's WWII song, "[The Ballad of] Rodger Young."

• Met Opera: Tannhäuser. Busch. Melchior, Singher, Cordon, Thebom, Traubel. Met season debut. Paul Breisach conducts the Walküres, George Szell the Götterdämmerungs,  Fritz Busch the Tannhäusers Tristans and Lohengrins and Emil Cooper the Parsifal. Graf is the director of Parsifal, elsewise Wallerstein is stage director.

New York Herald Tribune: "Mr. Melchior...was in good voice." (Bohm, p. 9)

New York Times: "Mr. Melchior...proved in excellent vocal form, providing by far the most finished and distinguished work of the evening." (Straus, p. 13)

New York Sun: "Lauritz Melchior's Tannhaeuser has never ranked among his best accomplishments and the constant stress on power cannot make good the diminishing sheen of the voice." (Kolodin, p. 4)

• RADIO: Fred Allen Show.

• Met Opera: Lohengrin. Busch. Melchior, Janssen, Moscona, Thompson, Varnay, Thorborg. BROADCAST

"Miss Varnay and Mr. Melchior made an impressive couple in the first act, their voices carrying splendidly above the orchestra. It was Mr. Melchior who dominated the scene vocally, the clarity of his tone and diction being only occasionally marred by a certain slight explosiveness at the beginning of a note." (New York Herald Tribune?)

• RADIO: 2:00 PM, WEAF: Harvest of Stars; Raymond Massey, narrator, Lauritz Melchior, guest, concert orchestra.

• Met Opera: Tannhäuser. Busch. Melchior, Janssen, Cordon, Thebom, Varnay.
  

• Recording session: MGM records, Hollywood.

• Cincinnati, St. Paul, MN, Municipal Arena, Kansas City, MI, Music Hall: scheduled concerts/recitals.

• Concert Tour: some stops on the tour are the Mosque Theatre in Newark, N.J., and Providence, Rhode Island.
  

• Concert, Symphony Hall, Boston. Otto Seyfert conducts.

• Concert, Carnegie Hall. For the Musician's Emergency Fund. Lauritz Melchior and Eleanor Steber give a joint concert. Otto Seyfert conducts. Melchior sings excerpts from Lohengrin and Pagliacci and songs.
  

• Recital, Hunter College, NYC: with Liederkranz Male Chorus and Patricia Benkman, 8:30 PM.
  

• Met Opera: Siegfried. Stiedry. Melchior, Garris, Berglund, Olitzki, Székely, Benzell, Harshaw, Traubel. Melchior's first opera performance of the 1946-47 season. This season, Graf is the stage director for Parsifal; the other Wagner performances are directed by Yannopolis.
  

New York Herald Tribune: "Mr. Melchior capered about as the young Siegfried in his familiar fashion, and if vocally he committed a few less exaggerations than usual, things in general were much as they have been. Despite the constant forcing, his resources of power are still considerable, but his waywardness of rhythm and his truncated phrases marked by ubiquitous attacks become more and more trying"  (Arthur Berger, p. 16).

New York Times: "A capacity audience received Mr. Melchior's experienced, authoritative performance...with enthusiasm at the end of each act."  p 32

New York Sun: "Looked considerably thinner than last year....His acting has not changed much, and this part has its difficult moments for him. He is yet capable of some magnificent singing, in which authority and skill are equally evident. The constant, brilliant flow of former years is missing."  (Schonberg)

• Met Opera: Lohengrin. Busch. Melchior, Hawkins, Ernster, Thompson, Traubel, Harshaw. BROADCAST
  

• Concert: Westchester County Center, White Plains, NY.
  

• Met Opera: Tristan und Isolde. Martin. Melchior, Hawkins, Székely, Traubel, Thebom. Wolfgang Martin ,debuting, is a last minute replacement for Busch.
  

Herald Tribune: "Melchior's voice was more clouded than usual" (Arthur Berger, p. 12).

Sun: [Neither Melchior nor Traubel were in good voice] (H.C. Schonberg, p. 21)

New York Times: "[Not] in the best vocal condition, though...occasionally [providing] some appealing vocalism." (Straus, p. 17)

• RADIO: Fred Allen Show: title: "Fred Tries to Get Lauritz a Job on Radio." 8:30 PM
  

• Met Opera: Walküre. Stiedry. Melchior, Székely, Janssen, Varnay, Traubel, Thebom. Melchior breaks his toe during Act I, but completes the performance with a splint hidden under his sandals.

"Lauritz Melchior fell on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House last night when leaping from a table in the first act of Wagner's "Die Walkuere." The sword he had wrenched from the tree went flying, but the tenor held his note." (New York Times, p. 32)

New York Sun: "Vocally the favorite tenor was in excellent form, and he sang with undiminished fervor, if some constriction in the upper tones. However, his attempts to stimulate Fritz Stiedry...from the sluggish pace he [Stiedry] favored were largely unsuccessful." (A.W.P. , p. 14)

• RADIO: Kay Kyser Show. Melchior sings novelty song "Open the Door, Richard."

• RADIO: "Hollywood Jackpot" with Melchior and MGM producer Joe Pasternak

• Met Opera: Lohengrin. Busch. Melchior, Janssen, Ernster, Harrell, Jessner, Varnay.

• RADIO: 9PM. Melchior is guest on Hildegarde's radio show.

• Met Opera: Siegfried. Stiedry. Melchior, Garris, Berglund, Olitzki, Ernster, Benzell, Turner, Varnay.
  

• Concert: Constitution Hall, Washington DC, Otto Seyfert conducting. Mr. and Mrs. Melchior also attend a dinner at the Danish embassy.

Washington Post: "Lauritz Melchior sang every number of a taxing printed program last night, repeated one, and gave three encores. And all on the top of two days of ptomaine poisoning....Constitution Hall was filled with an audience eager to hear the Wagnerian tenor....[But] for an artist of Melchior's standing and past achievements to demean himself with his final group of songs is for that artist to fall far below acceptable standards....Nor does it raise the quality of American concert-giving to have the last song of a recital become the occasion for audience participation....Save in the top of his voice, Melchior showed no strain or sign of illness. His delivery of the Lohengrin Narrative was sensitively phrased as always, but his rendition in English of [M'Appari], lowered a whole tone, had nothing to commend it...it was not Melchior's night, but he has had many great evenings, and will perhaps again" (Paul Hume).

• Concert: Lauritz Melchior and Irene Jessner sing a concert to aid the Horace Mann (Riverdale, Bronx, NY) School for Boys' scholarship fund at 8:30 PM.
  

• Met Opera: Lohengrin. Busch. Melchior, Janssen, Ernster, Thompson, Traubel, Harshaw.
  

• Met Opera: Walküre. Stiedry. Melchior, Moscona, Janssen, Bampton, Varnay, Harshaw. BROADCAST
  

• Met Opera: Tristan und Isolde. Busch. Melchior, Janssen, Ernster, Palmer, Harshaw.
  

• Concert: Westchester County Center, White Plains, NY. Otto Seyfert conducting.
  

• Concert: Des Moines, IA.

• Concert, Orchestra hall, Chicago. Otto Seyfert conducting.

Chicago Daily Tribune: "He has the rare gift of communicating his personal stature and his unquestioning conviction to anything he sings....At the start of the concert a shadow of fatigue touched his voice....Of the Scandinavian songs, the soaring brilliance of the Norwegian "Drick" was superbly done, and of the German songs, "Doppelgänger," "Der Atlas," and "Zueignung" led with uncommon beauty to the Straussian encore, "Heimliche Aufforderung," sung as no one I know has sung it since Heinrich Schlusnus." (Cassidy, p. 17).

• Concert: Syria Mosque, Pittsburgh PA.

• Concert [scheduled]: University of Tennessee Alumni Memorial Auditorium, Knoxville, TN.
  

• Met. Opera: Parsifal. Stiedry. Melchior, Berglund, Janssen, Pechner, Ernster, Bampton. (Final opera performance of 1946-47 season)
  

New York Times: "Melchior gave his familiar authoritative performance" and, the performance being sold out early, many patrons have to be turned away without tickets. (p. 13)

New York Sun: "Melchior may or may not have been pacing himself for the last half of the second act, but it was not until then that his voice had its customary volume. Dramatically, his conception of the role was in the typical Melchior vein, a law unto itself."

• RADIO: "Family Hour" CBS. Melchior sings "Agnus Dei."

• Concert, Philadelphia Academy of Music. Otto Seyfert.
  

• Concert, disaster relief, Galveston City Auditorium, TX (a chemical explosion and fires in Texas City on the 16th and 17th had killed hundreds).
  

• Concerts, disaster relief, movie theaters in Houston, TX.
  

• Concert: Fair Park Auditorium, Dallas, TX. Otto Seyfert.
  

"Ora e Per Sempre Addio" [was] sung with a breadth of style and nobility of tone that made one hunger for more....The phrasing of [M'Appari] was appropriate if a bit short-winded and the production was covered and lyrically restrained....The audience of 1,800, made up of few from Dallas' steady music patrons, applauded everything enthusiastically...perhaps the adolescents were disarmed by the announcement that the lieder group was "from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's picture "This Time for Keeps""....His voice showed few signs of wear and none at all after the warm-up group. Never an organ of sensuous beauty, it is most exciting in its clarion F to B range at the top. The veiled quality of the lower register [is well known]. He is a careful and expert vocalizer....Despite his new appeal to a Fred Allen-MGM public the artistic level of his program was respectable." (Rosenfeld, Dallas Morning News, Sec 1 p. 8)

• Concert, Svithiod Singing Club 65th Anniversary, Civic theater, Chicago. Knute Hansen conducts.

Chicago Daily Tribune: "The eminent Wagnerian was his customary heroic self as he joined the choristers in two Grieg numbers-he had earlier sung solos by Scandinavian composers..." (Albert Goldberg, p. 21.)

• RADIO: Melchior guests on Edgar Bergen's radio show.
  

• Concert, "Action for Humanity Rally." Hollywood Bowl. [Scheduled]. Sponsored by the Los Angeles United Jewish Welfare Fund.

• Recording sessions: MGM records, Hollywood.
  

• Concert, Robin Hood Dell, Philadelphia. Morton Gould. He sings excerpts from Lohengrin and Siegfried, and songs, including "Agnus Dei" from his soon-to-be-released third film, This Time for Keeps.
  

• Concert: Lewisohn Stadium Concert, New York. Alexander Smallens. Melchior sings excerpts from Meistersinger, Siegfried, and Walküre, as well as a number of songs which Melchior announces as being "from his next picture."
  
  NY Times:  "From the moment he strode onto the stage, smiling and magnificent in his black tailcoat, he had the audience with him...[the Prize Song was] sung flawlessly and with impeccable intonation...[and the Spring Song was] heroically tender." (C.H.)

• Special appearance: [scheduled] Memorial Cancer Hospital Drive at the Vine Street Playhouse in Hollywood today.

• Motion Picture: Melchior is filming "Luxury Liner" at MGM studios in Hollywood. Melchior has a large supporting role in Pasternak's vehicle for teenage soprano Jane Powell, which also stars George Brent and soprano Marina Koshetz.
  

• RADIO: Kraft Music Hall. Al Jolson, Oscar Levant. Melchior appears as guest to sing "Torna i Sorriento."
  

• Concert tour with personal orchestra.
  

• Concert: Victoria, BC.  Ezra Rachlin. Grieg, Henneberg, Lange-Miller, Gounod, Schubert, Wagner excerpts, and de Curtis, Heuberger, Spielman.
  

• 1. RADIO: Melchior appears on the Chicago radio program "Northwestern Reviewing Stand" discussing the future of American music.
• 2. Concert: Chicago Civic Opera House.
  

• Recording sessions: MGM records, Hollywood.

• RADIO: "Two Hours of Stars" radio program at 4PM: Don Ameche, Edgar Bergen, Bob Hope, Amos and Andy, Lauritz Melchior, Harry James, etc.