Word: carmens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following program will be given at the Zionists Night concert at the Pops this evening at 8.15 o'clock: Coronation March from "The Prophet" Meyerbeer Suite from "Carmen" Bizet Polovisian Dances from "Prince Igor" Borodin Invitation to the Dance Weber Beriloz "Kol Nidrel" Bruch "Italin," Rhapsody Casella Overture to "Sakuntala" Goldmark Kammenoi Ostrow Ouverture Solennelle, "1812" Tehaikovsky
...given at the Pops concert in Symphony Hall at 8.15 o'clock, tonight: Overture to "H Matrimonio Segreto" Cimarosa Ballet Suite Gluck-Mottl Overture to "Matilde de Shabran" Rossini Overture to "Benvenuto Cellini" Berlioz "A Night on Bald Mountain" Moussorgsky Salome's Dance, from "Salome" Strauss Prelude to "Carmen" Bizet Entr'acte from "Messidor" Bruneau Polortsian Dances from "Prince Igor" Borodin
...Carmen. Made in Spain and directed by a Frenchman, this is the best of a half dozen film versions of Prosper Merimée's mighty story. The reason is Raquel Meller (pronounced May-aire), the sorceress whose rich voice, ink-black locks, hands like moonstruck faces bewitched Manhattanites at $27.50 a head, two springs ago (TIME, April 26, 1926). She is a Carmen incarnate, and not a little carnal. No wonder poor Don Jose (Louis Lerch) became a thief and a murderer! No wonder the audience forgot that the photography was a trifle blinking...
...Copenhagen, Maria Jeritza (Baroness von Popper), famed "golden" soprano of the Metropolitan, sang in Tosca twice, Carmen once, Tannhauser once. Contrary to their polite custom of appearing at only one performance in an operatic series, the King and Queen of Denmark, dressed in their bravest regalia, sat in their box every time Jeritza sang. The King gave the singer a decoration encased in a gold medallion and asked her to attend an intimate family party at the palace after her first performance. This Mme. von Popper did with dignity and delight...
Tonight at 8.15 o'clock the second performance of the Pops Concerts will be given at Symphony Hall. The following selections will be rendered: Military Polonaise Chopin Suite from "Carmen" Vizet Song Without Words Tchaikovsky Overture to Sicilian Vespers Verdi March from "The Love of Three Oranges" Prokofieff Prelude to "Khovant china" Moussorgsky Hopak Moussorgsky Capriccis Espagnole Rimsky Korsakov Entrance of the Guests into the Wartburg from "Tannhausser Wagner Prelude to "Lohengrin" Wagner Ride of the Valkyrils Wagner