Word: bluebeards
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...Olga, intact. His suits were still there, moth-eaten to the seams; paintings were slathered with inches of dust. But Pi casso regarded it as a kind of album of his first marriage. Taken to see it, Françe began to think of Picasso as some sort of Bluebeard. Writes she: "I began to have the feeling that if I looked into a closet, I would find half a dozen ex-wives hanging by their necks...
...anticipation of Michael Flaksman's cello solo and Bartok's Bluebeard's Castle, one might have been able to ignore the unrelenting repetition of a simple motif in the opening Hebrides Overture (Fingal's Cave), by Mendelssohn. By attempting deafness, one might not have noticed that for a long time the brass were a measure out of step with the rest of the orchestra, and were playing so loudly that they could not hear their own error. Masochistic charity might have led one to expect the cold woodwind instruments to be out of tune at the beginning of a concert...
...concert version of Bartok's opera, Bluebeard's Castle, filled the second half of the program. The opera is Bartok's Opus 11, written in 1911 just four years after Kodaly had introduced Bartok to the music of Debussy, and while Bartok was still under the influence of Strauss and Wagner...
Altogether, Bluebeard's Castle is an early work of a great composer, interesting enough to perform every half century. One would have been more grateful for its performance had it not been the piece de resistance of the program...
...program will include Bela Bartok's "Bluebeard's Castle...