Word: dipus
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...Symphony came last week to Manhattan-with Serge Koussevitzky for conductor, Contralto Margarete Matzenauer, Tenor Tudor Davies, Baritone Fraser Gange for soloists, the Harvard Glee Club for a Chorus, and Speaker Paul Leyssac. This combination gave, as it did a fortnight ago in Boston (TIME, Mar. 5), the Œdipus Rex of Igor Stravinsky. Even the ablest critics sometimes disagree. Said Samuel Chotzinov (the World): ". . . a desperate attempt at a musical interpretation of lofty cosmic tragedy . . . a presumptuous drive with nothing of any consequence to back...
From Europe came Oscar Fried, German conductor, to give two performances as guest with the New York Symphony. Said he of Stravinsky's Œdipus Rex: "The most significant and important composition of recent years...
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