Word: ernst
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...singing The Song of the Open Road. Trying to follow each poet's vision, the music seemed to have little vision of its own, but it was skillfully scored. It evoked a lusty boo or two along with the applause in usually well-mannered Carnegie Hall. ¶Ernst Krenek's one-act opera. The Bell Tower, was premiered at the University of Illinois' Festival of Contemporary Arts, proved to be a stark, tight, declamatory work with a plot revolving about the dark deeds of a diabolical bell caster, Banna-donna. The score by Vienna-born Composer Krenek...
Only two of the statements made so far expressed any doubt concerning the choice. Dr. Ernst Mayr, Professor of Zoology, thought the purple finch a fine bird, but added, "Actually it's nothing very important, if you ask me." Whole-heartdly in favor of his nominee, Rep. Monahan had to concede that the purple finch is not really purple, but "like a sparrow dipped in rasberry juice." Outside of these two minor points, the purple finch is generally regarded as one of America's finest sweet-throated songsters...
...etchings "The War," (Der Krieg), transcends his subject's initial impact and there-by penetrates it. War's waste, fatigue and death become something mystical, even poetic. The starkness of his black-and-white tones produce an awareness far more effective than Kathe Kollwitz's unbounded sentimentality or Ernst Barlach's heavy-handed portrayal of heavy-handed destruction. And the transcendence involved is not emotional but aesthetic...
...Student Fellowship at the local Congregational Church deserves full credit for a generally successful production of A Tree on the Plains. For the folk opera, librettist Paul Horgan has fashioned a somewhat naive but effective story about farmers in the American Southwest, and the music by Ernst Bacon is simple, combining hymntunes, folk and popular styles into a pleasant conglomeration...
...minute symphonic poem by Chicago-born Pulitzer Prizewinning Composer Ernst Bacon, 58, with narration based on Paul Horgan's Pulitzer Prizewinning book Great River: The Rio Grande. Commissioned two years ago by the Dallas Symphony and performed under Walter Hendl, Rio Grande proved to be a collection of twelve thematic snippets-A River Created, Desert and Canyon: Texas-Mexico. Soldiers by Firelight-celebrating the river's history and lurid scenery. Composer Bacon's music, liberally scored for piano, vibraphone and harp, illuminates the text and is occasionally brilliantly evocative, e.g., in the tiny, clear sounds...