Word: eulenspiegels
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...Moro tom-tom. Manilans have been elegantly enjoying their concerts and opera for nearly 300 years, and were ready 15 years ago for the organization of a full-out orchestra. With precision and grace last week it swung through Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, Strauss's Till Eulenspiegel, Glazounov's Une Féte slave. Jovita Fuentes, Filipino soprano who has sung Madam Butterfly from China to Nazi Germany, sang a set of Gustav Mahler's most ivory-turreted Lieder...
...absolutely unfettered by considerations of structure, and the resulting lack of logic makes irritating, and even bewildering listening for many. Yet in many ways it is Strauss's greatest work. It shows a variety and a breadth of spirit unequalled in anything else he wrote. The humor in Till Eulenspiegel, for example, is obvious stuff compared to the brilliant whimsy of the Don and his squire Sancho. Not only do individual comic touches, like the army of sheep and the little bassoon sketch of two Benedictine monks, rank in subtlety above anything in Till, but the entire score, including some...
...they think the public wants. But their obligation to present what is best in music is greater than to catering to public taste. Are they not bound to play now and then Don Quixote, thought by many to be Strauss's masterpiece, as well as Don Juan and Till Eulenspiegel? If Don Quixote is too pastoral, too serene, for this restless generation, are they not bound to educate the people to it? In short, is it not the musician's task to present what is great in music as well as what is merely liked
Also included on the program are Strauss's "Till Eulenspiegel," a Shostakovich Symphony (Op. 10), and Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor, arranged for orchestra by Leo Weiner...
Next week's concert will be a rare combination of Scheenberg's "Pelleas and Melisande", the "Unfinished Symphony" of Schubert, and Strauss' "Tyl Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks...