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Almost all of the seminars will have assigned readings. Grossman will have his students reading Goethe's Faust, Part I, Gotthelf's Black Spider, and Brecht's Good Woman of Setzuan. Af- fred B. Lord, professor of Slavic and of Comparative Literature, will assign various Bible readings for his seminar, "Myth and Oral Tradition in the Bible," in order to promote "informal but informed discussion...
...Philadelphia last week she sang it in its rightful pagan setting. Languorously, with blandishment in every tone, she tried to stay the truant Tannhäuser whose torn soul was marvelously depicted by the stately chords of holy Pilgrim music and the madly skirling strings of a Bacchanal. Tenor Gotthelf Pistor had the nasal, strutting manner of most German tenors, but his Tannhäuser showed a certain dark-toned dignity. Conductor Fritz Reiner made a proud showing for his U. S. opera début, the opening of the Philadelphia opera season...
...good singers, was last week in the middle of its ninth annual opera fortnight. It heard an ably done Aïda (Soprano Elisabeth Rethberg, Russian Contralto Faina Petrova, Baritone Giuseppe Danise, Tenor Giovanni Martinelli, a bespectacled stage band in the triumph scene) ; a Lohengrin (Tenor Gotthelf Pistor, Soprano Maria Müller, Baritone Friedrich Schorr, all fresh from Bayreuth) ; Andrea Chenier and Madama Butterfly. There were to be seven more performances, all sung by a distinguished troupe but none of them novelties. Most memorable event of the season, about which San Franciscans were still talking and laughing, had come...
...shepherd's pipings which tell him that Isolde's ship is in sight. Although the orchestra (under Conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler) was less clear than the singers, reception improved during the last 20 minutes. Best voice was that of Basso Josef Manowarda (King Mark). Others: Tenor Gotthelf Pistor (Tristan), Soprano Nanny Larsen-Todsen (Isolde), Baritone Rudolph Bockelmann (Kurvenal...
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