Word: falla
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Spanish Government gets 30% of the gross receipts; therefore, when the expenses are paid the members' reward is very meager. I met some of the best known Spanish musicians, including De Falla, who lives at Granada, within sight of the Moorish palaces and Alloniz. An interesting young school of composers is to be found in Spain...
...this, two cups of that, a tablespoon of something else, a pinch of salt?and a chef has mixed a cake. A Beethoven symphony or perhaps a Haydn, a bit of de Falla or maybe Respighi and a portion of Wagner?and a symphonic conductor has made up his program. And just as one chef is famed for his pastry, the next one for his meats, so is it natural for one conductor to excel in one style of music, be it classic, romantic or modern...
Charles Naegele and Mr. Koussevitzki will conclude the day in Sanders at 8 o'clock. For Beethoven is on the program in F major, and Grieg, and Pierne and De Falla. It is a program worthy of them, and between the numbers. I shall sit and wonder how they light the as jets on the chandeller...
...Vida Breve, opera in two acts by Manuel de Falla, based on the libretto by Carlos Fernandez-Shaw, had its first U . S. performance last week at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan. Paco, traditional scion of a wealthy family in Granada, seduces Salud, a black-eyed gypsy girl, deserts her to marry the more suitable Carmela. Salud would have him back, goes to Carmela's house on the evening of the wedding festivities, sings the warm, fragrant gypsy melody that won him first, dies of grief when he repulses her. On such an old, old story, unfattened by dramatic detail...
Giulio Gatti-Casazza, Manager of the Metropolitan Opera Company, Manhattan, returned from Europe last week, announced that, among other novelties, he will put on four operas never before heard in the U. S.: Manuel de Falla's La Vida Breve, Spontini's Vestale (a work much admired by Wagner, which established Spontini's reputation in France in the early 19th century), Gioudano's La Cena delle Beffe, adapted from the play The Jest, and Stravinsky's Le Rossignol. He raised the price of seats: ground floor, $8.25 from $7.70, "dress" circle $4.95 from...