Word: gruenberg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...operas produced by the Met, only Deems Taylor's The King's Henchman (1927) and Peter Ibbetson (1931), and Louis Gruenberg's Emperor Jones (1933) were mild successes. The last pre-Menotti U.S. opera was Walter Damrosch's The Man without a Country, which got one performance...
...Copland (Birthday Piece, On Cuban Themes For Two Pianos), French-born Darius Milhaud (string quartet), California-born Frederick Jacobi (songs about the prophet Nehemiah), Czech-born Bohuslav Martinu (Trio for Flute, Violin and Piano). Hit of the evening came at the program's close with Russian-born Louis Gruenberg's Variations on a Popular Theme. It nearly brought discreet cheers. Composer Gruenberg's theme was The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze. In it the audience had finally discovered a tune it could whistle...
...McFadden discovered Tsar Saltan on a trip to Russia, translated it herself, had it streamlined and arranged for piano accompaniment. The other Junior opera in the repertory is Louis Gruenberg's Jack and the Beanstalk. Newest of Junior ballets is Robin Hood, written by Junior Programs Producer Saul Lancourt, danced to old English tunes.* Last week, on the heels of the ballet troupe, the Junior Programs opera company went on a 30-week tour, its ten members in automobiles, its scenery and costumes in a truck...
...Fight for Life (U. S. Film Service) is scored by famed Composer Louis Gruenberg to the beating of a human heart. Sometimes the heart drums frantically. Sometimes it fades, almost stops. Sometimes there is a loud overbeat, a faint underbeat. The overbeat is a woman's heart in childbirth, strained to capacity by labor. The underbeat is the heart of the child she is struggling to bear. Once, in the picture's first episode, the overbeat stops. It is like a scene of human sacrifice. The cramped body lies on its pallet. The doctors make deft, noiseless movements...
...administers stimulants to keep life alive until he can get a transfusion from the blood bank. In the picture's most harrowing scene, the blood drop by drop saves the woman's life as the flux of life itself is heard in the fading heart beat of Gruenberg's superb score...