Word: erlkonig
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...Bedtime" a soloist danced languorously around the scenery fashioned from six other company members. Once again Morris created patterns with a movement running from one end of a block of dancers to the other. The section based on Schubert's "Erlkonig" was perhaps the most traditional, with each dancer playing a character to tell Goethe's tragic story of a son lost to the Erlking...
...more of the Old Russian songs fast dying under the new regime, explored the folk-music of France, Germany, England. All her songs tell stories. There was one last week in which a French husband glowered and raged at his simpering, deceitful wife. There was an arrangement of the Erlkonig which Goethe and the Kapellmeister Reichardt made for Goethe's cook. Tarasova sang it swaying eerily, perfectly depicting the bogey which haunted the child's delirium. The mechanics of such singing is secondary to the fact that words & music are ideally blended. Sometimes Tarasova's natural voice...
...songs that Schubert is measured today, by his Erlkonig that he wrote when he was eighteen, by Who is Sylvia?, Litaney, Tod und das Madchen and the Standchen, by the songs that crept in to become the life of his last string quartets, his quintet, the C Major and the great Unfinished Symphony. In Vienna he was first just the thirteenth child of a Moravian peasant-schoolmaster and a dreary cook in a middle-class family. He was the bushy-haired, undersized choirboy in the Imperial Chapel, the one with the thick spectacles. He was the feeble violinist...
...long have singers, imbued with mistaken patriotism, or actuated by others thus inspired, crippled the effect of Brahms, Schumann and Schubert, but it would seem that this is past. Probably it was this handicap of words ill-fitted to music which damaged Mme. Matzenauer's rendition of Schubert's "Erlkonig" when she sang it with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, four years since. At any rate, Miss Braslau far overleaped it last Sunday, singing the song, as she did, with a realism too intense to be excelled. In other numbers of Schubert she triumphed as well. Especially did she impart...
...Borodine La Cloche, Saint-Saens Chanson du Printemps, Gounod Phidyle, Duparc Les Paons, Loeffler Les Papillons, Chausson L'Hymne au Soleil (des Chansons de Miarka), Alexander Georges Perces neiges (Schneeglockchen), Schumann Messages (Auftrage), Schumann Berceuse (Wiegenlied), Strauss Serenade (Standchen), Brahms Ou aller (Wohin), Schubert Le Roi des Aulnes (Erlkonig), Schubert