Word: hadly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The Lost Patrol (British). There was material for a masterpiece in the situation of these eleven soldiers on the Sahara desert. They had been riding under sealed orders to an unknown destination. A sniper kills their lieutenant and the Arabs steal their horses. Nothing can save them from dying or...
Die Meistersinger (German). It is hard to tell whether the story of the cobbler and the city clerk of Nuremberg who loved a girl who loved neither of them would have been better or worse if Wagner's immortal but cinematically difficult music had been recorded around it. The...
For all this Verdi wrote songful dramatic music which 80 years ago had great success. Last week it was stamped by most listeners as pleasant, old-fashioned stuff significant only because it gives a hundred hints of the later, greater Verdi. Distinguishing feature of the performance: the sumptuous singing of...
Those who knew anything of the career of Soprano Hallie Stiles were astonished when it was announced that her first formal U. S. appearance would be in the Germanic Lohengrin. Artistically she is a Paris product. Born in Stockton, Calif., she went, aged ten, to Syracuse, N. Y., where her...
In 1772 when Franz Joseph Haydn's Farewell symphony had its first performance before Hungarian Prince Nicholas Esterhazy, some one had the idea of keeping the audience in darkness, giving each musician a candle of his own to snuff at the concert's close. In Cincinnati Conductor Fritz...