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...Disneyland (Wed. 7:30 p.m.. ABC). Cartoon versions of tales by Aesop, La Fontaine, Andersen and the Brothers Grimm...
...Theodore Chanler's The Pot of Fat, at the Longy School of Music, Cambridge, Mass., had a plot based on a Grimm fairy tale about the disastrous marriage between a trusting mouse and a villainous cat. The libretto evoked critical catcalls, but the music had a light charm bordering on jazziness. At 53, Composer Chanler has never tried his hand at opera before, but his songs are standouts...
...Leon Stein's The Fisherman's Wife, produced with two-piano accompaniment by the International Society for Contemporary Music in Chicago, was based on another Grimm story, this one about a fellow who catches an enchanted fish, gives it its freedom and is granted his every wish in return. His shrewish wife takes over the wishes for herself. She becomes king, then emperor, but when she demands that she be made God, the whole strike-it-rich setup collapses. Composer Stein, 44, who is a conductor and a teacher at De Paul University School of Music...
Completed in 1936, Carmina Bur ana is Carl Orff's first major work (he destroyed all his previous manuscripts), the piece he calls his "snowplow" because it clears a path with listeners for acceptance of his others, e.g., musical plays based on Grimm fairy tales, poems by Catullus, Greek tragedy. He called it a "dramatic cantata," and meant it to be performed as a theater piece. At 59, still living near his native Munich, Orff no longer writes for the concert hall. Says he: "Melody and speech belong together. I reject the idea of a pure music...
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