Word: gounod
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...Trolley Song, on 160,000 Victor discs. Columbia followed with Harry James's The Love I Long For and 500,000 copies of White Christmas, sung by Frank Sinatra. On the classical front, Conductor Andre Kostelanetz got there first with recordings of the Schubert and Bach-Gounod Ave Marias (Columbia); runner-up was Pianist José Iturbi's recording of Morton Gould's Boogie Woogie Etude (Victor...
Hollywood's redheaded Jeanette MacDonald last week realized one of those classical ambitions which often continue to bother sensationally popular stars. She made her U.S. debut in grand opera. The scene was the late Samuel Insull's Chicago Opera House. The opera was Gounod's tuneful Roméo et Juliette. The result made no operatic history. But even Chicago's seasoned operagoers admitted that the show was better than they had expected...
...requirements of the liturgy, the Black List includes all the religious music of Handel, Mozart, Schubert, Rossini, Weber and Verdi, most of Haydn's and Beethoven's. Blacklisted also are such treacly items as At Dawning, I Love You Truly, Good Night Sweet Jesus and the Bach-Gounod Ave Maria. The great Johann Sebastian Bach, though he was a Lutheran, is on the White List...
Last week Fisk was preparing to install a Van Vechten gift, the George Gershwin Memorial Collection of Music and Musical Literature, which may be the South's best musical library. It includes letters (by Gershwin, Puccini, Humperdinck, Gounod, Meyerbeer-but none by Negro musicians), operatic and other scores, U.S. first editions, a vast heap of recordings, bursting scrapbooks of U.S. musical history. All this can hardly fail to seduce white scholars from Vanderbilt, Tennessee, Chapel Hill and Duke Universities...
Last week Sir Thomas was helping Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera make a smashing success in Chicago. Said the Chicago Tribune's discriminating Claudia Cassidy of Sir Thomas' Faust: "Its most persuasive points were Beecham's energetic pursuit of the beauty and brimstone of Gounod's imperishable score. . . . Sometimes the result was so delightful you wished the stars would stop singing." Throughout the winter Sir Thomas has been one of the chief ornaments of the Met's conductorially brilliant season on its home grounds. Between times he has galvanized the young, awkward Brooklyn Symphony into...