Word: auf
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Even in Ernst Krenek's Jonny Spielt Auf, presented last year at the Metropolitan Opera House (TIME, Jan. 28) and before that in many a European capital, there was much discussion because Hero Jonny is supposed to be a black-face comedian. The Metropolitan authorities worried about letting Basso Michael Bohnen wear full, realistic black-face makeup, thought perhaps his neck should show white to reassure prejudiced observers. At the dress rehearsal the neck was white. It looked so absurd that at the performance it was blackened like the face...
Died. Hugo von Hofmannsthal, 55, of Vienna, poet-dramatist, author of Richard Strauss operas (Der Rosenkavalier, Elektra, Ariadne auf Naxos); in Rodaun, Austria ; of heart attack while dressing for the funeral of his son, Franz, 28, suicide...
Less atonal in its harmonies but in spirit akin to Composer Ernst Krenek's much- discussed Jonny Spielt Auf, the bathroom opera's subject matter is a farcical treatment of divorce. The soprano's opening song becomes a duet when a man, employed by her husband to provide divorce grounds, enters the room. The duet becomes a trio when another feminine guest of the hotel comes in to demand the use of the bath. Finally the noise grows so loud that all the employes stream in. The finale is exciting, uproarious...
Young Germany sees the U. S. singing. Composer Ernst Krenek chose a U. S. Negro jazzer for his Jonny Spielt Auf. Another modernist, Kurt Weill, has found inspiration for a new cantata in the Lindbergh flight. Written for the July Festival in Baden-Baden, a drowsy watering place in the Black Forest which has found itself the seat of radical musical experiment, the composer also intends The Lindbergh Flight for radio consumption. The cantata was publicly described last week for the first time...
...announced as follows: Sonata Written in 1774 Mozart Woodland Sketches McDowell (a) To a Wild Rose (b) From Uncle Remus (c) From an Indian Lodge The Music Box Ludow Intermission Rumanian Folk-Dances Bela-Bartok Marche des Pettits Soldats de Plomb Pierne Fantasie from the Opera "Johnny Spielt Auf" Kvenek...