Music: Settlement at the Met

"I think it's quite evident that we can look forward to another Met season."

That quiet remark by Secretary of Labor Arthur Goldberg last week confirmed what much of the Metropolitan Opera's New York public had assumed all along: that the gold curtain would rise on schedule. After an angry salary dispute that had simmered for months, the Met management and the musicians' Local 802 agreed to submit their dispute to "binding arbitration"—with Goldberg as the arbitrator.

Though the public tended to take all the huffing and puffing lightly, fact was that the Met season was in more jeopardy than either management or...

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