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...this week, the Vienna Saenger-kuaben, famous Austrian boy choir, concludes its tour of this country with a pair of concerts at Jordan Hall. The usual one-act operas which accompany each performance will again be presented--Schubert's "A Song from Old Vienna" on Tuesday, and Mozart's "Bastien et Bastienne" on Wednesday. In addition, shorter numbers of Vittoria, Palestrina, Schubert, Brahms, and Straus are included in the programs...
...veterans, Segard, finds himself swiftly and effectively replaced in Therese's affections by his companion, Bastien, who, after a whirlwind fifteen minute courtship, persuades her to elope with him a week later. Segard, with a pertinacity which one assumes he has never shown before, boards the Canada bound "S. S. Tenacity"--alone...
Philip Bourneuf, again showing his superiority over the rest of the group, gives a singularly sensitive performance of the affectionate Segard, but despite this, one fails to feel the sadness that should be his, but rather the joy and expectation of Therese and Bastien. To Miss Fitzpatrick and Francis Cleveland belong the more intriguing roles; to Bourneuf, the kudos for better execution...
Debussy never finished Mrs. Hall's Rhapsodie. His last ambitious work was an order from Poet Gabriele d'Annunzio who wanted music for his Martyre de Saint-Sébastien to give to his mistress. Dancer Ida Rubinstein. Debussy's idolaters like to call Saint-Sébastien the great French Parsifal. Stage performances are never given to bear out their belief. The few concert performances have made it seem like the product of a tired, sterile mind. The War cast a final blight on Debussy's creative powers. One of his last feeble works...
...through their 22 valises in each of which bathrobe, towel, comb and handkerchiefs were packed exactly alike. Then, after sight-seeing Manhattan, the boys set out for Washington where Mrs. Hoover and many another notable heard them sing with expert unity and phrasing, saw them enact neatly and unaffectedly Bastien & Bastienne, a fragile little opera which another Austrian boy, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, wrote when...