Word: fausts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Glee Club is blossoming forth early in the season this year by participating in the Symphony concerts of this Friday and Saturday. The work in which they are to sing is Liszt's Faust Symphony, which employs a chorus in its third and last movement. Written during the years 1854-57, the symphony is really neither fish nor fowl; for while composed in the form of a three movement symphony, it violates the classic symphonic principles by its attempt at character delineation and its utilization of representative themes, much as in Wagnerian opera. The characters whom Liszt describes musically...
Worst feature of the 1936 Salzburg season has been the rain which dampened Max Reinhardt's open-air performances of famed Jedermann ("Everyman") and Faust, in which appeared Paula Wessely, a charming German Gretchen...
When the earthquake sound effects are over, the MacDonald sound effects begin again. Having rendered two night club ditties, "San Francisco," a mission anthem and part of the role of Marguerite in Faust, she is yodeling Nearer, My God, To Thee in a tent settlement when Blackie rediscovers her, kneels down to talk to God. A shrewd compendium of romance and catastrophe, with emphasis on the latter, skilfully administered by Director Woodbridge Strong Van Dyke, San Francisco is an excellent example of Hollywood's ability to make yesterday's headlines as exciting as today's. Good shot...
Chief of the 1936-37 concerts, it was made known, will be those of October 23 and 24 when Lizst's "Faust Symphony" will be rendered with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and a singing of the "Saint Matthew Passion" with the Boston outfit in March...
...Marche Militaire Schubert *Overture to "Oberon" Weber Two Jazz Studies Hill (First performance in the orchestral-version) *Suite from "The Damnation of Faust" Berlioz Minuet of the Will-o-the -wisps-Ballet of the Sylphs-Rakocsy March "Pirates Island" Mabel W. Daniels Recitative and Air of Azael, from "L'Enfant Prodigue" Debussy Soloist: Elizabeth Beaman, Soprano Divertissement Ibert *"Selection, "The Gondoliers" Sullivan *"Artists' Life," Waltzes Strauss *"Prelude to "Carmen" Bizet...