Word: brujo
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...music through a loud speaker. One hand guides the orchestra, the other the controls. In a first demonstration last week much of the color of a first hand performance was transmitted to Albeniz's Fête-Dieu à Séville, de Falla's Amor Brujo, Debussy's La Cathédrale Engloutie, Ravel's Bolero. Stokowski will broadcast again on Nov. 16 and on Christmas and Easter afternoons...
...FALLA'S EL AMOR BRUJO, by the London Chamber Orchestra (Brunswick, 2 records, $1 each) - Strange colors, strange rhythms mixed in a seething mass. Many will recognize the Fire Music as that to which La Argentina does her famed dance...
...castanets in the wings and the gliding entrance of La Argentina. She was tired and languorous as the sun that used to warm her; she was glittering and remote; she was a primitive thing driving away evil spirits to the fire music made from de Falla's Amor Brujo, snapping her fingers, clucking her tongue; a comic spirit cavorting on a peasant's holiday. She danced without accompaniment, was herself the musician, playing a busy bass with her heels while her castanets turned the tune of a Seguidillas...
...players in the pit are borrowed from the Philadelphia Orchestra. But it has Alexander Smallens for conductor, W. Attmore Robinson for artistic director, men who have refused to be bound by a Verdi-Puccini repertoire. Last year they gave the U. S. premieres of De Falla's El Amor Brujo, of Erich Korngold's Der Ring des Polykrates and critics all over the country pricked up their ears...
...evening of the wedding festivities, sings the warm, fragrant gypsy melody that won him first, dies of grief when he repulses her. On such an old, old story, unfattened by dramatic detail, the young De Falla wrote his opera, years before he was capable of El Amor Brujo or El Retablo de Maesa Pedro,** before he had any real understanding of the theatre, when music of one kind or another was all the same to him?simple, lovely, languorous. Lucrezia Bori, herself as black-eyed, as Spanish as any Spanish gypsy girl, was Salud?lovely, languorous, like De Falla...