Word: fausts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...international tourist event into a dominantly German celebration. Places of absent foreign visitors were taken by droves of enthusiastic Nazis, including hundreds of members of Propaganda Minister Goebbels' "Strength through Joy" movement who had been granted specially reduced rates. The elaborate permanent stages formerly used for the Reinhardt Faust and Jedermann productions had been torn down, and the street name plates marking "Reinhardt Platz" and "Toscanini Hof" had been removed...
...personnel had changed much. In the place of the absent Toscanini reigned Germany's No. 1 conductor, Wilhelm Furtwängler. Notably absent from the roster were such famous operatic names as Lotte Lehmann, Kerstin Thorborg, Rosa Pauly. In place of the grandiose stage productions of Faust and Jedermann, two new dramatic productions were scheduled: Goethe's Egmont and Amphitryon, a play by Germany's 19th-Century, romantic Playwright Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist...
BERLIOZ: THE DAMNATION OF FAUST, ORCHESTRAL EXCERPTS (London Philharmonic, Sir Thomas Beecham conducting; Columbia: 4 sides). Berlioz' flickering and diaphanous orchestral effects brilliantly played. The excerpts are the familiar Minuet of the Will o' the Wisps, Dance of the Sylphs, Hungarian March...
...March, "Pomp and Circumstance"Elgar *First Movement (Allegro moderato) "Unfinished" Symphony Schubert *Song to the Evening Star, "Tannhauser" Wagner *"Finlandia," Symphonic Poem Sibelius *Waltz Scene from "Faust" Gounod *The Lost Chord Trumpet solo: Roger Voisin Sullivan *Ouverture Solennelle "1812" Tchaikovsky *"Tales from the Vienna Woods," Waltzes Strauss *Hora Staccato (Roumanian) Dinicu-Heifetz *Procession of the Sardar, from the "Caucasian Sketches" Ippolitov-Ivanov *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...
...Rakoczy March from "The Damnation of Faust" Berlioz *Overture to "La Belle Helene" Offenbach Fugato on a well-known theme McBride *Hungarian Dances (Nos. 5 and 6) Brahms Chorus with Orchestra: Harvard Glee Club--G. Wallace Woodworth, Conductor March of the Peers, from "Iolanthe" Sullivan Two Italian Folk Songs Tarantella (Prologue to the Harvard Classical Club play of 1936) Elliot Carter '30 *Coronation Scene from "Boris Godounow" Moussorgsky *Bolero Ravel Harvard Fantasy Leroy Anderson '30 *The Way You Look Tonight" Kern (Symphonic paraphrase by L. Cailliet) *"Up the Street," March Morse...