Word: jaromir
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...become with the idea of new operas, few of which survive more than one or two seasons. Not even a middle-aged Wagnerian (Baritone Friedrich Schorr), who endeavored to impersonate swaggering Schwanda by oc- casionally skipping across the stage, seemed to dim the happy effect that Czech Composer Jaromir Weinberger got with his sophisticated scoring of a theme song on life and barnyard noises, a rollicking polka, a noisy, oldtime finale. In Europe Schwanda is the best-selling modern opera. It has had over 1,000 performances, been translated into 14 languages. For the U. S. premiere last week Scenic...
...severely classical Arturo Toscanini) has championed more modern opera than any other man in Germany. He directed the premieres of Austrian Alban Berg's Wozzeck (five years before Stokowski gave it to Philadelphia), Frenchman Darius Milhaud's Cristophe Colomb (written to the libretto of French Ambassador Paul Claudel), Czech Jaromir Weinberger's Schwanda, scheduled for performance at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera next year. It was Kleiber's enterprising programs, as well as his sound musicianship, which won him a reengagement for next vear with the Philharmonic...