Word: janacek
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...program for tonight's concert will be as follows: Song of the Sea Bedrich Smetana The Wicked Sweetheart Antonin Dvorak The Sparrow's Party Antonin Dvorak Hymnus (Double Chorus) J. P. Foerster The Grim Guest (Double Chorus) J. Kricka On the Field Path J. P. Foerster "70,000" Leos Janacek National Folk-songs and Dances The Evening Star (Slovak) J. Kricka I Have No Joy (Czech) J. Jindrich The Presburg Barracks (Slovak) J. Kricka Tit for Tat (Czech Dance) H. Palla Cardas (Dance, dance and whirl ye around (Slovak) B. Pokorny
Died. Leos Janacek, 74, prolific Czech composer (Jenufa, Sinfoinetta), who wrote more than 30 operas after he had passed 60 years of age; of pneumonia; in Mährisch-Ostrau, Austria...
Madame Jeritza, in the title role, a picture of fresh, rustic loveliness, acted and sang with never-failing variety and vitality" (The New York World). According to The New York Times, her Jenufa is "undoubtedly one of her finest accomplishments." Janacek, the composer, and Jeritza are compatriots. Jeritza was born and brought up in Brünn, the little town in Czecho-Slovakia where Janáćek has spent the greater part of his life. She made her operatic debut in Olmütz, from there she went to the Vienna Volksopcr (People's Opera) and thence...
These include Debussy's magnum opus, Pelleas et Mélisande, in which Edward Johnson and Lucrezia Bori will probably be the principals. For Jeritza, there is also a German novelty, Jenufa, by Leos Janacek, Czecho-Slovakia. This opera, first heard in Prague in 1916, has since been performed in Vienna and Berlin...