Word: elektra
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Songs and Ballads of America's Wars (Frank Warner; Elektra). An informal collection of old pulse-bumpers, many of them all but forgotten. They range from Felix the Soldier, a delightfully wry recollection of the French and Indian War by a conscript Irishman, to such truculent songs of the Confederacy as The Bonnie Blue Flag and The Old Unreconstructed...
...Suthaus were imported from Germany to do Tristan and Isolde and Die Walküre. At week's end, Italian Coloratura Contralto Giulietta Simionato and Tenor Cesare Valletti drew ovations in Massenet's rarely heard Werther. German Soprano Inge Borkh is on tap for Strauss's Elektra and Puccini's Turandot...
Jean Ritchie Sings (Elektra LP). Kentucky's Jean Ritchie sings with sweet clarity and mountain-folk feeling old songs traditional in her area. Among her best: Hush, Little Baby, The Cuckoo, Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Elektra, with Varnay, Hoengen, Svanholm, Wegner, Schoeffler...
What the audience saw last week was a far cry from either Salome or Elektra. As one watching expert, Conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler, described it, Capriccio is "a musician's opera, composed for the musical gourmet. It has the quality of an old, old sweet wine and contains everything that Strauss knew about music and opera...