• Concert: St. Augustine, Florida. (scheduled)

• TV: Voice of Firestone

• Recital: Houston, TX

• Recital: Edinburgh, TX

• Recital: El Paso, TX

• Recital: Phoenix, AZ

• Recital: Will Rogers Memorial Auditorium, Fort Worth, TX

• RADIO: Milton Cross: Melchior is a guest. 4:30 PM

• Concert. Municipal Auditorium, Birmingham, AL. Cincinnati Symphony, Thor Johnson conducting. Tristan und Isolde excerpts with Traubel.

• Recital [Scheduled]: Lancaster, Pennsylvania Forum Auditorium.

• Recital, Chicago: Svithiod Choral Club. Melchior sings songs by Sjoberg, Grieg, Sibelius, Schumann and Rodgers and Youmans. Melchior's accompanist for this and his other recitals this winter/spring is Leonard Eisner.

• TV: Voice of Firestone

• Recording sessions, Decca studios: a Student Prince cast recording with Melchior, 60, as the Prince, conducted by Victor Young.
  

• Concert: Minneapolis. Concert version of Tristan und Isolde with Melchior and Traubel. Antal Dorati conducts.
  

• RADIO: Carnegie Hall; broadcast on WJZ 8-8:30 PM.

• Concert, Chicago: Melchior is guest soloist at 28th biennial Norwegian sangerfest of Norwegian Singers Association of America, Northwest Armory. 8 PM. Walter E. Steindel conducts the Chicago SO.

• RADIO: WNYC 2:00PM.
  

• Concert: Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, Colorado. Melchior and Traubel sing a Wagnerian program with the Denver Symphony.
  

• Concert: Melchior appears as a soloist with the Denver Symphony during the same week as the Aspen Festival (see above).
  

• Concert: Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Colorado. Melchior and Traubel sing scenes from Tristan und Isolde conducted by Saul Caston.
  

• RADIO: NBC Symphony Orchestra Series. Max Reiter, conductor. "Some Enchanted Evening", "Not Enough," "Prize Song," "Vesti le Giubba"

• Concert: Robin Hood Dell in Philadelphia. Leonard Bernstein conducts Melchior in three excerpts from Lohengrin and Walküre, as well as "Because," "Without a Song," "Yours is My Heart Alone," and "Some Enchanted Evening."
  

• Concert: Oglebay Park Amphitheatre, Wheeling, West Virginia.
  

• Concert: University of Utah Stadium, Salt Lake City

• Special Appearance: Lauritz Melchior sings at Eisenhower's "Crusade for Freedom" meeting on the topic of "Radio Free Europe" in Denver City Auditorium.
  

• TV: Voice of Firestone

• Concert: [Scheduled] Winnipeg, Manitoba
  

• TV: "Toast of the Town" (Ed Sullivan's show). Melchior sings "Lohengrin's Farewell" and "Without a Song."
  

• Concert: Scheduled: London, Ontario
  

• TV: "Stop the Music" Bert Parks and guest Lauritz Melchior WJZ-TV 8-9 PM
  

• Concert: Kansas City, joint concert with Rose Bampton; Kansas City Philharmonic.

• Recital: New Orleans Municipal Auditorium.

• Concert: Springfield, Massachusetts

• Concert, Tallahassee, FL. Melchior is soloist with the State Symphony of Florida. Karl Kuersteiner conducts.

• TV: United Hospital Fund Show, WPIX 9-11 PM

• RADIO: Tallulah Bankhead's "The Big Show;" the other guests are Fred Allen, Ed Wynn, and Jack Carson. NBC

• Concert: Philadelphia Forum

• Recital: Hunter College, New York City

• Special Appearance: Lauritz Melchior sings "America the Beautiful" at the grand opening of Wollman (Ice Skating) Rink in New York's Central Park.

• TV: "Toast of the Town" 8-9 PM (The Ed Sullivan Show). With David Niven, Rosemary Clooney. Melchior sings "Vesti la Giubba" and "Some Enchanted Evening."
  

• RADIO: "Birthday in Bethlehem." Melchior sings "Silent Night" at 11:57 PM over NBC.

• TV: Uncle Miltie (Berle)'s Christmas Party 3-4 PM. WNBC. Melchior sings "The House I Live In."

• 1. Special Appearance: Lauritz Melchior performs at the wedding of Renee Schone and Chicago industrialist Lester Crown at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City.
  
• 2. TV: Melchior is a guest on Kate Smith's Variety Show.
  

• Concert tour-including Baltimore, Maryland
  

• Concert: Dana College, Nebraska

• Concerts scheduled include Houston, Texas, and Oklahoma City.

• TV: 9-10 PM. NBC. Jack Haley revue. With Lauritz Melchior, Morey Amsterdam, Jackie Gleason, Harold Lang. Melchior sings a song, then performs a duet with Jack Haley, which is, according to the Variety review, an operatic satire of "The Thing." Broadcast from New York City.
  

• Concert: Scheduled: Louisville, Kentucky, Memorial Auditorium
  

• Concert: Austin, Texas. University of Austin's Gregory Gymnasium, 3:30 PM. Ezra Rachlin conducts the Austin Symphony.

• Concert: Scheduled: Cincinnati
  

• Concert: Scheduled:  Tristan & Isolde with Traubel, Minneapolis Symphony, Dorati.
  

• Concert: Kiel Auditorium, St. Louis, MO: Tristan und Isolde excerpts with Traubel and St. Louis Symphony, Vladimir Golschmann conducting.
  

• Concert: Constitution Hall, Washington D.C. Melchior sings Scandinavian songs, Schubert, R. Strauss, Schumann, and Wagner.  President Truman and his family attend. 

Washington Post: "It took the singer a long time to warm up his voice. Not until...the Wagner, did he find some of the vibrant power formerly such a part of his voice. The years have left Melchior with his ringing higher notes, though these do not come with ease. But he is no longer able to color tones or sustain them softly. His intonation, too, suffers at times....his entire group of lieder...were complete distortions of the composer's rhythms and intentions.  Melchior simply did not know or understand the Earlking" (Paul Hume, p. B4).

• Special Appearance: Melchior, still in DC, sings for Korean War wounded at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center at 7:30 PM, Red Cross Auditorium. Before the concert, he attends a luncheon given by Mr. and Mrs. Curt Schiffeler at the Raleigh Hotel. After the concert, he sings at a dinner given in his honor by Turkish ambassador Erkin and his wife.

• TV: Voice of Firestone
  

• Concert: Scheduled: University of Miami Symphony

• RADIO: Melchior appears on Tallulah Bankhead's "The Big Show" radio program on NBC again; the other guests are Fred Allen, Ed Wynn, and Beatrice Lillie.
  

• Concert: Mount Vernon, New York. Mount Vernon Symphony Orchestra, Simon Asen conducting. Joint concert with Mimi Benzell.

• Concert: Scheduled: Knoxville, Tennessee, Tristan & Isolde concert version with Traubel, Cincinnati Symphony.
  

• Concert: Scheduled: Birmingham, Alabama, Cincinnati Symphony
  

• Concert: Scheduled: Atlanta, Georgia, Tristan & Isolde concert version, with Traubel and Cincinnati Symphony.
  

• TV: 4-Star Revue with Ed Wynn, Lauritz Melchior, Smith & Dale, Richard Himber, Paul Steffan Dancers. 8-9 PM.
  

• Special Appearance: Melchior appears at a Red Cross rally at Madison Square Garden attended by President Truman.
  

• RADIO: Carnegie Hall, Liederkranz SO, conductor Otto Seyfert, soloist Lauritz Melchior, 8:30 PM
  

• Concert: Scheduled: Syracuse, New York
  

• Special Appearance: Melchior appears at the "Paris Birthday Ball" at the Waldorf-Astoria, New York City, a benefit for French Hospitals-[possibly not a singing appearance?]
  

• Concert: Berlin. An outdoor benefit. It is broadcast on RADIO.
  

• Concert: Oglebay Park Amphitheatre Wheeling, West Virginia.
  

• Concert:  Robin Hood Dell, Philadelphia. "He sang the 'Prize Song' transposed down a full tone" Musical America's review claims.
  

• TV: "Toast of the Town"

• TV: "Voice of Firestone"

• Concert: Colorado Springs High School Auditorium, Colorado Springs, Colorado.
  

• Concert: Scheduled: U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor

• TV: 9-10 PM: All Star Revue (Victor Borge's Show), Lauritz Melchior, Vera Zorina, June Hutton. Melchior sings the "Prize Song."
  

• Concert: Jackson, Mississippi Municipal Auditorium
  

• Concert: Mobile, Alabama
  

• Concerts: "Lauritz Melchior and his Singing Vikings" appear as one of the opening acts (20 minutes, 5-6 times a day) for screenings of Fox Studio's Betty Grable movie "Meet Me After the Show" at the Chicago Theater in Chicago. Conductor is Louis Basil.
  
  On November 9th, Melchior also appears on the morning RADIO program "Welcome Travelers" hosted by Tommy Bartlett (NBC).

On at least one occasion, Melchior sings an additional program of songs at the Chicago Theater outside of his regular appearances before each screening of the movie. Crooner Tony Bennett takes over from Melchior for a new program on the 23rd of November.

Chicago Tribune: "Melchior...beams, even when the theater's [miniature] orchestra bravely embarks on Siegmund's love song....after the Wagner he sings "Because," "Viva la Compagnie [sic]", and the song I sometimes thinks he loves best of all, Grieg's "I Love You." (Claudia Cassidy, Nov. 12, p. B1B.)

Variety (Nov. 14, reviewing Nov. 9) "Nate Platt, house booker, deserves a plaudit for the debut of Lauritz Melchior, who certainly makes more than an auspicious bow...." ("Zabe"). Under "New Acts" section, same reviewer: "Lauritz Melchior, in his vaudfilm debut here, has eschewed the usual trend of the longhair going comedic. He does straight singing with little deviation. That such a routine would excite bravos from an early-morning audience is certainly a rarity in vaude, but that's exactly what greeted Melchior here. It's an indication that the right kind of longhair attractions can do well in the presentation houses. Singer, dressed in tails, makes no concession...in including any straight pop tunes...After a short intro, he does the Spring Song...and it gets him a tremendous hand.  There are no flourishes, no grimaces, just fine singing.  Headliner then introduces his choral backing...they sock across a neatly-phrased rendition of "Morning," led by Melchior; he then joins them [in "Because"]...which gets a near-violent handburst.  The group does a tricky, semi-comedy roundelay, "Vive La Compaigne," [sic] with a plea for audience participation. Brought back, Melchior does another solo, "I Love You," for boff closer. The appeal of the act is not limited to any phase of show business-it's certainly a "must" for television and theatres. However, it might even be a smart booking for better supper clubs. Melchior at past 60 certainly can give pointers to many youngsters in this business...."

• Special Appearance: Lauritz Melchior also appears at the 7th "Harvest Moon Festival" held in the Chicago Stadium on November 17th.
  

• Concert: Scheduled: Lyric Theatre, Baltimore.

• RADIO: "The Big Show," Tallulah Bankhead's radio program #37, with Fred Allen, George Sanders, Lauritz Melchior, Paul McGrath, Ginger Rogers, Dolores Gray
  

• Special Appearance: Melchior and comedian Joe E. Brown are the entertainment for the Hershey Employee's Christmas Party.
  

• TV: Dinah Shore Show. Melchior sings "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer."

• Concerts scheduled include Sioux City, Iowa.

• TV: Lauritz Melchior on Channel 4, 8:30 PM.
  
  

• Concert: Scheduled: Duke University, Durham, North Carolina

• Concert: Scheduled: Nashville, Tennessee

• TV: Voice of Firestone

• Special Appearance: Melchior attends the last day of Judy Garland's Palace Theater (New York) show. In a traditional vaudevillian gesture to the following act, Garland takes him up on stage for a brief conversation. At the end of the show, he leads the audience in "Auld Lang Syne."
  

• Concerts: Melchior begins his run as a Palace Theatre vaudeville headliner, closing on March 10?. His song program is similar to that of his other lighter concerts during recent years. On the first night, his program includes "Winterstürme," "Beiden Grenadiere," "I Love You," "Without a Song," and "Because."    

New York Times: "...There is no necessity for [Melchior's] little speech indicating that it is a difficult assignment following Miss [Judy] Garland. He can hold his own, as he amply proved in his first appearance in the vaudeville stage....He displays dignity and radiates warmth, and he has an ingratiating manner in introducing his various numbers." (Lewis Funke, p. 22) 

Brooklyn Eagle: "[Melchior] establishes his right to that position [top billing] in this new vaudeville medium...with a jolly and hearty personality, and of course, his strong, rich voice....a warm likable trouper, Mr. Melchior" (Louis Sheaffer)

Billboard, 8 March 1952: "The show closer was Lauritz Melchoir [sic]. The white haired, dignified tenor sang in accomplished manner. He even managed to get in some audience participation. But as a show closer, apart from his name, he didn't stack up to some of the other acts that preceded him" (Bill Smith, p. 3).

• TV: Melchior appears on NBC at 4:00 (this may have been the Kate Smith Show?)

• Concert, Carnegie Hall, New York: Melchior sings with the Liederkranz Singing Society at Carnegie Hall at 8:30 PM.

• TV: "Arthur Murray Party"

• RADIO: Musical Comedy Theatre 8-9 PM. WOR: "Two Sisters from Boston" with Lauritz Melchior and Jules Munshin.+
  

• MOVIE: Melchior is filming the motion picture The Stars are Singing for Paramount in Hollywood. The movie is a joint vehicle for pop singer Rosemary Clooney and teen soprano Anna Maria Alberghetti. Melchior has third billing.
  

• Concert, Chicago: Melchior is soloist with the Svithiod Singing Society, 8:15, Orchestra Hall.

• RADIO: Olympic Fund Show.

• Recital, Santa Barbara, CA: Lobero Theater. A joint recital with violinist Henri Temianka. Accompanist Emanuel Bay. Melchior sings Scandinavian songs, lieder by Wagner and Schubert. After the concert, he attends a supper given by Harry McGuire and his wife, former Countess Marita Skarzynska, and, while he is in Santa Barbara, also attends a luncheon given in his honor by Mme. Ganna Walska at her estate, "Lotusland."

• TV: "Toast of the Town"

• Concert: Warner Theatre, Atlantic City, New Jersey. With baritone Robert Merrill (1917-2005) and soprano Marguerite Piazza. Melchior is 'Master of Ceremonies' and sings "Winterstürme," "Eternal Life," "The Song's the Thing," and excerpts from "The Student Prince" with Merrill and Piazza.   

Melchior's performance with Merrill today is possibly not his first. Merrill claimed in his 1976 memoir, Between Acts, that he sang with Melchior at a New Year's Eve party hosted by Elsa Maxwell in Newark, New Jersey in the early 1950's. At that party, Merrill recounted,he made Melchior the butt of a publicly humiliating joke about the array of medals Melchior wore to formal dress occasions.      

Merrill reflected that the prank smarted Melchior so strongly because as "concrete evidence of decades of noble achievement" the medals were one of the few things Melchior had that "propped him up now that he was no longer champ." (From: Merrill, Robert. (1976). Between acts: an irreverent look at opera and other madness. New York: McGraw-Hill, pp. 222-223.)

• Concert: Scheduled: a concert in Colorado Springs' High School Auditorium.
  

• Concert: Scheduled: Memorial Hall, Pueblo, Colorado.

• TV: "Toast of the Town"
  

• TV: Lauritz Melchior is a guest on game show "The Name's the Same."
  

• TV: Arthur Murray Show. Lauritz Melchior, Victor Borge, Teresa Brewer.
  

• Concert: Scheduled: Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

• TV: "Toast of the Town" 8-9 PM. (Ed Sullivan's Show). "The story of ASCAP, part II"  Melchior sings one or two Victor Herbert songs.
  

• TV: Voice of Firestone 8:30 PM
  

• TV: "Where Was I" Channel 5.

• RADIO: Melchior appears on the Armed Forces Radio Service program called "JUBILEE."

• "Lauritz Melchior Show": Melchior opens a "nightclub act" at Las Vegas's Sahara (Congo Room).  On this opening night, Melchior begins the show singing "Sing Me a Song," later sings "Vive L'Amour", "Without a Song," "Because" and "Vesti la Giubba," and appears as part of a "Merry Widow" finale, singing "Maxim's." The rest of the show belongs to the other singers and entertainers who form part of his "Lauritz Melchior Show."

Perhaps the most interesting aspect of this group concert tour is that, in partnership with the National Federation of Music Clubs, young local singers who auditioned beforehand will appear at a designated time during Melchior's show, to be recorded and judged by a committee from the National Federation of Music Clubs. The winners, Marlene Koenig and Gus Dittman, are announced in October 1954.

• Concert: Scheduled: Denver, Municipal Auditorium.

• Special Appearance: Melchior sings the "Star Spangled Banner" during part of the Eisenhower inaugural festivities.
  

• "Lauritz Melchior Show": Municipal Auditorium, Oklahoma City, 8:15 PM. The next two shows take place in Tulsa and Enid, Oklahoma.

•  "Lauritz Melchior Show": Civic Center Theatre, Bartlesville, Oklahoma, 8:20 PM.

• "Lauritz Melchior Show." Capitol Theatre, Wheeling, W.V.
  

• "Lauritz Melchior Show," Constitution Hall, Washington, D.C. 

Washington Post: "Melchior's voice is gone....in excerpts from Puccini's "Boheme" Rodolfo's aria was chopped precisely at its midpoint...and the ensuing duet, "O Soave fanciulla," was also ended before its taxing last phrases. Not that either singer [Melchior or Val Valente] could have hit them....Things are pretty odiferous in the Lauritz Melchior show" (Paul Hume).

• "Lauritz Melchior Show," Ohio Theatre, Lima, OH.

• Concert: Melchior performs with the chorus of Chicago's Lake Shore Club, directed by Knute Hansen of Chicago's Svithiod singing society.

• "Lauritz Melchior Show:" Sans Souci nightclub in Montreal, Quebec.
  

• "Lauritz Melchior Show:" Reno 

• "Lauritz Melchior Show": Congo Room, Sahara Hotel, Las Vegas. Sample program: October 1: Melchior sings "Torna i Sorriento", "Vesti la Giubba," "The Last Time I Saw Paris," "You are Love," and "Helan Går."

• Century Room, Hotel Adolphus Century Room, Dallas, TX

"The Great Dane, impeccably clad in evening dress, and wearing his native Denmark's Commander Cross of Knighthood, was a majestic figure, but with a twinkle in his eye, and a flair for a quip, he introduced his young fellow-artists...Young artists need to be heard he said, and introducing this young talent was part of the purpose of the show....the Maestro joined the youngsters in a couple of "Student Prince" numbers. But when Melchior took the stage alone he gave forth with the old power and drive for which he is famous. And he can get sentimental...and...tender [too.] His finale appropriately done in Canio's clown costume was the contrast needed to round out the evening's program. There wasn't a peep out of a usually noisy crowd of night-clubbers, as he sobbed out the "Vesti la Giubba." (Fairfax Nesbit, Dallas Morning News)

• TV: Melchior sings "Because" during the Cerebral Palsy Telethon telecast from Dallas, Texas. He is accompanied by the singers Angeline Collins and William Chapman from "The Lauritz Melchior Show."
  

• 1. Melchior plays Santa at Children's Aid Society, New York.
• 2. TV: Dave Garroway Show 8PM WNBT Channel 4.
  

• NIGHTCLUB: Lauritz Melchior's nightclub show is in Washington DC to play two shows a night in the Sheraton-Park Hotel's Continental Room.   

Washington Post: "More than 300 persons....thoroughly enjoyed the Lauritz Melchior Show....The Danish tenor...kept his audience spellbound with a mixture of showmanship and talent that actually brought diners to their feet when the first show ended....Instead of trying to dominate the musical revue Melchior has wisely delegated some of the chores to three 'young hopefuls,' including attractive Angelene Collins, all with more than average talent." (Herron, P. February 10, p 24)

• Special Appearance: Melchior sings "Because" and Grieg's "I Love You" at the Navy Supply Corps Officer's Wives Club luncheon today in Washington, DC, a charity function attended by First Lady Mamie Eisenhower.

• NIGHTCLUB: Melchior Show: Orchestra Hall, Chicago.

Chicago Tribune: "When he opened with some Viking songs and added Sibelius' "Black Roses" and Grieg's "I Love Thee," it was reassuringly like old times. The three young singers with him, Marcella Reale, Patricia Beems, and William Chapman, have voices and talent....But the printed program [which included arias from Lohengrin and Walküre, Schubert, Strauss, Sibelius, Backer-Lunde] is a movable feast adjusted as Mr. Melchior tests audience temperature, and the parading on and off stage becomes interminable." (Cassidy, p. B11)

• TV: Life Begins at Eighty, 9PM, Channel 5
  

• TV: 7-7:30. Guy Lombardo Show. Lauritz Melchior and ballerina Mia Slavenska appear to promote the musical comedy Arabian Nights.
  

• Recording session, Decca Records: the cast album of Arabian Nights.

• TV: 8:30 PM: Arthur Murray Party. Lauritz Melchior, Jane Russell, Bert Lahr, Burgess Meredith, Jimmy Nelson, Gali Gali, Rhonda Fleming, Beryl Davis, Connie Haines.
  

• MUSICAL COMEDY: Melchior gives nightly performances of Arabian Nights in Jones Beach Marine Theatre, Long Island, New York as "The Sultan."
  

• TV: 8:30-9 PM: Arthur Murray Party. Lauritz Melchior, Eva Gabor.

• TV: Star Theatre. Lauritz Melchior, Jimmy Durante. Channel 4. Melchior performs a vaudeville act with Jimmy Durante.

• TV: Lauritz Melchior is a guest on the game show "The Name's the Same."
  

• RADIO: Heart Fund Show: Lauritz Melchior and Frank Sinatra are the guests. 

• Concert: New York. Lauritz Melchior performs with Liederkranz S.O. and chorus.
  

• MUSICAL COMEDY: Melchior gives nightly performances of Arabian Nights at the Jones Beach Marine Theatre, Long Island, New York.
  

• NIGHTCLUB: Melchior begins a four week visit at the Desert Inn in Las Vegas with his nightclub act. He sings excerpts from Student Prince, Vesti la Giubba, and "Vive la Compagnie" from his picture Thrill of a Romance.