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...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...
...major (composed in 1774) Mozart Overture, "Fingal's Cave" Mendelssohn Spring Song of the Robin Woman, from "Shanewis" Cadman Silhouettes (Poem by Oscar Wilde) Slonimsky New England Sketches MacDowell To a Wild Rose--From an Indian Lodge--From Uncle Remus Music Box Liadov Fantasy from the opera "Jonny spielt auf" Krenek...
Like a Broadway musical show, jazz rhythms set listeners' feet a-tapping. But appearances to the contrary, Jonny Spielt Auf* is no ordinary musical show, no Ziegfeld nor Dillingham production. Rather it is the notorious jazz opera of Ernst Krenek, 28-year-old Austrian, and it was presented last week by the august Metropolitan Opera Company with such important singers as Basso Michael Bohnen for Jonny, Tenor Walter Kirchoff for Max, Baritone Friedrich Schorr for Daniello, Sopranos Florence Easton for Anita, Editha Fleischer for Yvonne her maid, and Artur Bodanzky conducting...
...Pierian Sodality is pursuing its new policy of fresh programs and heightened standards of performance: in fact a month before that jazz-opera is produced in New York, the audience will hear a Fantasia from Krenek's "Jonny spielt auf...
...commissioned one of each. The singers arrived, the actors arrived, but the burgher wanted his art short. Opera plus play would take too long so he ordered them run off together. On such a farcical notion did Moliere make his Bourgeois Gentilhomme. Hugo von Hofmannsthal used it for Ariadne auf Naxos for which Richard Strauss wrote the music. Last week the Strauss-von-Hofmannsthal opus, given first in Stuttgart in 1912 with Maria Jeritza, had its U. S. première-with the enterprising Philadelphia Civic Opera Company...