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Described as a "fairy opera for the childlike," Jack and the Beanstalk is retold in the naively sophisticated manner which Author Erskine found profitable in his novel The Private Life of Helen of Troy. Jack, a soprano, loses gold, a hen and a magic harp to a Gargantuan bass giant. An old woman tricks him out of his faithful cow, burlesqued by two bassos who lyricize fore & aft. The harridan gives him a handful of beans which grow into the familiar beanstalk; he retrieves his treasures from the giant, who at last turns out to be an inflated rubber figure...
...John Hope Doeg 1. Mrs. L. A. Harp...
...English version: Psalm XXXIX, Verses 12, 13; XL: 1, 2, 3; CL complete), uses a chorus to describe in Latin the transition from abject penitence to exultant praise. In the orchestra are no violins, violas or clarinets but five flutes, many other wind instruments, drums, two pianos and a harp. Bostonians, though for the most part baffled by Stravinsky's new designs, sensed their importance, wanted another hearing. More immediate was Boston's grasp and appreciation of Stravinsky's scintillant Caprice for piano and orchestra, given its U. S. premiere the same afternoon...
...other would have thought of emitting posthumous messages to Congress every morning in or out of session. Mr. Coolidge is an original. He is the first man ever put four wheel brakes on a Jew's harp. He has almost invented a silent loud speaker. And he is a perfect master of the enematic style-a squirt of warm water in the place of breakfast...
They Cut Down the Old Pine Tree and Somewhere in Old Wyoming (Brunswick)?The first (by Dick Robertson, a male quartet and a jews' harp) should become a barber-shop classic...