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...beast with humans installed fore & aft to walk, talk and sing for her. Even so, such a cow serves excellently to point the plot of Jack & the Beanstalk, a "fairy opera for the childlike" with libretto by John Erskine (The Private Life of Helen of Troy), music by Louis Gruenberg. Opera and cow were presented in Manhattan last week as a part of the wealthy Juilliard Musical Foundation's housewarming...
...human and properly awed by appearances. He waited until the giant was asleep to steal the gold and the hen which spilled forth eggs before the audience's very eyes. He used more wit to get the harp, coaxed the giant into making it play some of Gruenberg's jazz, a love song which made the giant fairly maudlin, a lullaby which did the trick. Down the beanstalk scuttled Jack followed by the giant who, being only rubber and hot air, burst and fell in a deflated mass. The witch by this time was a beautiful princess...
...Siegfried; the Cock in Rimsky- Korsakov's Coq d'Or and the Fishes in his Sadko; the Frog-Man in Respighi's Sunken Bell. This cow, it was announced last week, is a character in Jack and the Beanstalk, a new opera composed by Louis Gruenberg to the libretto of Author-Professor-Pianist John Erskine. First of a projected series of native U. S. operas, it will be presented by students of Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music, of which Author Erskine is president...
Modern, colorful, technically difficult, Jack and the Beanstalk is announced as an "all-American" opera. Its young singers and Conductor Albert Stoessel are U. S.-born; Composer Gruenberg is nearly native. Born in Russia 48 years ago, he arrived in the U. S. at the age of two, has lived there since save when traveling and studying in Europe under the late great Pianist Ferruccio Busoni. In 1921 he won Philanthropist Harry Harkness Flagler's $1.000 prize with Hill of Dreams for orchestra; last year he was one of the winners of the Victor symphonic award...
...program of the Boston Symphony Orchestra for this afternoon and tomorrow night at Symphony Hall, Serge Koussevitzky will offer one novel selection, Gruenberg's Symphony Poem, "Enchanted Isle" Gruenberg is a Russian, born in 1885, now living and working in New York, best known in American concert halls by a swirling setting of Vachel Lindsay's "Daniel Jazz...