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White Lilacs. With appropriate adaptations of waltz and mazurka, the Shubert Brothers offered this glib and pleasant operetta based upon the life of famed Composer Frederic François Chopin. It stresses the episodes in which the composer was seen about with George Sand, meeting her at the home of the Countess d' Agoult and playing or grieving with her at Majorca...
...Operetta is the most romantic species of the art of the stage. Hence in White Lilacs there is not much effort to trace too accurately the mazy path of history. Nor is wit important to the operetta, and White Lilacs puts business before pun. Guy Robertson (as Chopin), De Wolf Hopper, Odette Myrtil supply these; the legitimate copies of the composer's original tunes especially help produce in White Lilacs an engaging show...
...Shuberts, too, seem anxious to bring culture to the musical stage. Their first offering is to be White Lilacs, an operetta based on the life of Chopin and accompanied by arrangements of his melodies. It is interesting to observe that Broadway's most potent brothers never seem to get left very far behind. While Harris and White and The Guild, all comparatively new competitors, leap ahead with inspiration, the Shuberts gallop steadily along, always good-natured and always ready to accept the new thing without growls and murmurs. Their faces have none of the melancholy which distinguishes that...
...will be "Simmons night" at the Pops concert tonight at 8.15 o'clock in Symphony Hall. The following program will be rendered: Polonaise Chopin, Glazounov Valse Triste Sibelius Capriccio Espagnol Rimsky-Korsakov Songs by Simmons College Glee Club D. B. McClosky, Director Overture to "The Bartered Bride" Smetana Fountains of Rome, Symphonic Poem Respighi Songs by Simmons College Glee Club Overture to "Le Maschere" Mascagni Intermezza from "Goyescas" Granados Ride of the Valkyries from "The Valkyrie" Wagnet
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