They had invited Kirsten Flagstad to sing with him for this but she said "Too late for me..." She was ill with bone cancer in Norway but did hear the broadcast. She telephoned him but was unable to reach him so she sent a cable instead: She thanked him for the performance she had just heard and "for the old days. There was nobody like you..."
Amazing that he could sing this well at seventy...but there never was anyone like him!
They had invited Kirsten Flagstad to sing with him for this but she said "Too late for me..." She was ill with bone cancer in Norway but did hear the broadcast. She telephoned him but was unable to reach him so she sent a cable instead: She thanked him for the performance she had just heard and "for the old days. There was nobody like you..."